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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Stuck in time zones
From:       David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date:       2002-09-03 20:30:23
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On Tuesday 03 Sep 2002 2:01 pm, Best, Jan-Pascal van wrote:
> I'm stuck in timezones. I'm trying to read appointments off 
> the exchange server by webdav properties, in order to avoid the
> mimelib debates on the kmail mailing list. This goes very 
> well, except for the time zone handling. I get datetimes in 
> ISO9601 format, which result in UTC times. How do I handle 
> those so that they turn up allright in KOrganizer? I tried
> asking the calendar (a CalendarLocal in this case) what it
> wanted, but
>   kdDebug() << "Calendar->getTimeZone(): " << mCalendar->getTimeZone()
> << endl;
> gives me sometimes 0, sometimes 393219, so that's not much use.
> The timeZoneId() is "Europe/Amsterdam", as it should, but how do
> I translate this into offsets to UTC?

My impression is that libkcal/libical does not yet handle time zone IDs as
opposed to numeric time offsets, even though there are some functions whose
names suggest that they might.

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David Jarvie
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