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struggling with apple iCal and timezones

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:52:07 -0500
To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
Cc: RDF Calendar <www-rdf-calendar@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1159854727.30985.308.camel@dirk>

Tim,

You noticed that my calendar has floating times in it.
I just spent an hour or so adding a --floattz option
to swap/pim/toIcal.py so that I can say "use Chicago
time for all the floating stuff in my work calendar".

Well, I can't get apple iCal to grok the results.

my work.ics now has dates like...

DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME;TZID=/softwarestudio.org/Olson_20011030_5/America/Chicago:20050222T120000

and it has a VTIMEZONE component for America/Chicago.

But iCal treats it a floating and displays it as "other".

Not only that, but when iCal writes your .ics files, it still*
writes timezones like "US/Eastern" without VTIMEZONE declarations.
I thought this got fixed a while ago.

* this bug was acknowledged in March 2003.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2003Mar/0011.html
<- http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfcal/#L21805


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