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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] PATCH, RFC: Korganizer and timezones (bug 68345)
From:       Shaheed <srhaque () iee ! org>
Date:       2003-12-14 17:35:58
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On Sunday 14 December 2003 11:52, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2003 21:28, Shaheed wrote:
> > Attached is a patch to implement timezones in .ics files (bug 68345).
> > Just as I finished this, I suddenly thought of why MS Exchange may be
> > saving meeting .ics files with timezones and non-UTC settings:
> > because it wants the meeting time to "float" with the timezone
> > phases.
>
> No, floating time zones would be saved without any timezone information
> (also not as UTC, no trailing Z at the datetime string). If you mix
> timezones in one calendar and want to preserve the information which
> event belongs to which timezone you need the timezone parameters.
> Anyway, as iCalendar allows time zone ids per datetime property we have
> to support it.

Right, I see.

> > If I am right, it is rather late in 3.2 to fix this, so I assume that
> > any fix would have to wait till after the release.
>
> It doesn't change much of the existing parsing so I think it's safe to
> add now.
>
> > Should I commit?
>
> I have committed the patch with some slight modifications. Many thanks
> for solving this problem.

Thanks! Actually, I think you comitted the first version of the patch using 
the broken icalrecur_iterator stuff. The one that works in all cases is at:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=107073019732409&w=2

Do you want me to merge this into your commit, or will you?

Shaheed
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