- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 30 Jul 2003 23:14:32 -0500
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-calendar@w3.org, David Dorward <david@us-lot.org>, Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 20:33, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > The difficulty which phpicalendar has and any other solution would have > is the function which takes a local time and a timezone name like > America/New_York and > generates from it the time in Z. Hmm... ical files aren't allowed to use names like that without spelling out what they mean. > Do you have that in python? No... I have parts of it worked out in N3: http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/tzrules.n3 I think there's a Net::ICal module for python. And there's libical in C (I found some evidence of python bindings to that via google). > There also seemed to be a difference between iCalendar from evolution > and from iCal, > in that evolution writes the timezone definition in the calendar file, > the latter just uses a name. Yeah; the latter is broken. sigh... we had bookmarked a message from Bruce Kahan confirming that these files were buggy, but imc.org's archive doesn't seem to stand still. http://esw.w3.org/topic/CalendarUserAgents -> http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/2003/02/14/2003-02-14.html#1045239798.103267 -> http://www.imc.org/ietf-calendar/mail-archive/msg05069.html > > timbl -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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