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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    RE: [Kde-pim] Exchange plugin date mistmatch???
From:       Umesh Sirsiwal <umesh () proquent ! com>
Date:       2003-04-01 17:09:24
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Hi Jan,
Thanks for the reply. I had KDE time zone to be EST, Exchange Server in EST 
while KOrganizer time zone was not set. I did not know that I have to set it 
and assumed that KOrganizer will default to KDE time zone. Note that even 
upload was always working correctly.
After changing time zone time is synced correctly.


In any case here are lines you requested.
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Eastern Time (US & Canada)

DTSTART;TZID="Eastern Time (US & Canada)":20030401T150000
TEND;TZID="Eastern Time (US & Canada)":20030401T160000



Another thing I noticed is that although appointments are synchronized 
correctly, reminders are not. I never see any reminders being set in 
KOrganizer although they are set on exchange server. Here is VALARM section 
from the appointment if that helps.


BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT00H15M00S
END:VALARM

-Umesh
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for your report. 

About time zone trouble with KOrganizer and the Exchange plugin:
> It does sync
> appointments however time on appointment differ by 5 hours from what I
> expect it to be. For example 1:00 pm on outlook will be 6:00pm on
> KOrganizer. I am in EST which is +5:00 so I am assuming that it has
> something to do with TimeZone however I do not know how to fix it.

I've heard this before and I'm not quite sure what's going on. Could you 
please let met know the following three things:

- The KDE time zone: Look inn the KDE Control Centre/System 
Administration/Date&Time

- The time zone that KOrganizer is set to (look in Settings/Configure 
KOrganizer/
Time&Date/Timezone)

- The time zone of the Exchange server. This is NOT THE SAME as
the time zone you set in Outlook. You can find out the time zone 
as follows:
  - Start Konqueror
  - Browse to your calendar in Outlook Web Access on your Exchange server
  - Right-click on any appointment and choose "Copy link location"
  - Start a Konsole (or XTerm)
  - Run the following command:
      $ wget --header='translate: f' -O appointment.txt \
        --http-user="<accountname>" --http-passwd="<password>" \
        <url>
  where you fill in your Exchange account name for <accountname>, 
  your password for <password> and paste in the appointment url
  for <url>
  - Look at the resulting appointment.txt. Send me the lines between
  BEGIN:VTIMEZONE and END:VTIMEZONE, as well as the lines starting with
  DTSTART and DTEND.

Ideally, these time zones (at least the last two) should all be the same.
But things should still work if they're not, because the Exchange plugin
should translate appointments between time zones.

Please send me these three time zones so that I can help you.

Cheers

Jan-Pascal

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