From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: iCal export - possible timezone bug
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 13:45:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13062.1241718356@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> of "Thu, 07 May 2009 18:59:03 +0200." <4a031359.0437560a.3c1c.4e49@mx.google.com>
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >>>>
> >>>> X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin
> >>>>
> >>>> and a quick test confirmed this. I don't have a clue if this is
> >>>> emacs
> >>>> side or more in org's remit, but hope this helps.
> >>>
> >>> The only time zone information I get from Emacs is the abbreviation.
> >>> Does anyone know how to concert this into the longer form?
> >>>
> >>> - Carsten
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> I asked in the emacs irc and drew a blank. Possibly use what you do
> >> unless an org-timezone string is set for now?
> >
> >
> > this makes sense.
> >
> > For now the variable is org-ical-timezone, maybe
> > later it will be aliased to org-timezone.
> >
> > Available now.
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> >
>
> tested, works. As does the fix on the export. Thanks.
>
It might be a good idea to initialize the variable from the TZ
environment variable (if that is set). That way, one could add
export TZ
TZ=Europe/Amsterdam
e.g., in the appropriate login shell initialization file and get the
correct behavior with the system date as well as with org-icalendar.
I find the timezone stuff very confusing in general, but I have the
(perhaps incorrect) impression that people actually use the TZ env
variable sometimes, although I guess that Linux distros in general try
to automagically do the right thing at installation time by copying the
appropriate tzfile into /etc/localtime, so you don't have to worry about
TZ; but if you are switching between timezones or want to override the
default, TZ does work:
export TZ=US/Eastern
date
export TZ=US/Pacific
date
export TZ=Europe/Berlin
date
works as expected (this is on Ubuntu 8.04 - BTW, the tzfiles are in
/usr/share/zoneinfo on this distro.)
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-07 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-25 20:51 iCal export - possible timezone bug Richard Riley
2009-05-06 10:57 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-06 13:42 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-06 13:50 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-07 16:59 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-07 17:45 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2009-05-08 7:18 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-08 15:02 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-08 15:09 ` Karsten Heymann
2009-05-08 15:51 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-08 15:11 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 15:27 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 15:49 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-07 4:44 ` Mario E. Munich
2009-05-07 15:08 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-07 15:23 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-07 15:49 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <71454fac0905070813laabf50bg4cb5285b3c48085c@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <4a0302c6.0637560a.215f.1158@mx.google.com>
2009-05-07 17:06 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-17 12:31 ` Richard Riley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-08 16:15 Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 16:37 ` Richard Riley
2009-05-08 20:13 ` Nick Dokos
2009-05-08 21:15 ` Nick Dokos
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