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iCal lacks time zone information #294

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Marwe opened this issue Feb 4, 2021 · 4 comments
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iCal lacks time zone information #294

Marwe opened this issue Feb 4, 2021 · 4 comments

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@Marwe
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Marwe commented Feb 4, 2021

The iCal export lacks time zone information, so my calendar (evolution) assumes UTC then and shifts the event to a wrong time.

Timezone is set for the team, but seems not to be used in the ical export.
I saved a diff after setting the timezone in my calendar, see attachment.
The time zone definition in the beginning seems complex (with daylight saving) and if I remember correctly, time zone definitions are not standardised, that may be the reason for the calendar software (evolution) to embed it so verbosely.

May be looked at together with #116 and #114

Attaching failed, diff can be found as paste for one year, otherwise it is easily reproducible with any ical import/export:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/qgzjvWsf38/

@Marwe
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Marwe commented Feb 4, 2021

Another, more recent saved ics contains an explicit
X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC
which is not the timezone of the team.

Thunderbird/Lightning has a less verbose TZ definition, diff at
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/YyNYNntySp/

@Marwe
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Marwe commented Feb 4, 2021

I guess the timezone definition is hardcoded here and this might be the issue:

timezone = "UTC"

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Marwe commented May 14, 2021

It seems to be configurable in the time zone selector in the 'place' information. Choosing the correct time zone of the event there yields correct ical export (time properly given in UTC).

There might be reasons to bind timezone to places (different schedule/start at different places, an event might be worldwide).
Anyway, choosing the (main) timezone together with the event time would be good.

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+1 please add timezone support in both the web UX and iCal. I have been using GetTogether to host online meetings attended by folks from many timezones and I have to just add a note in the description.

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