Re: Bug in org-export-icalendar

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Harri Kiiskinen <harri.kiiskinen@utu.fi>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug in org-export-icalendar
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:34:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1CBCEE4B-7DAE-415F-9D6A-FD83DEA5CC07@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081111.151722.205822299.harri.kiiskinen@utu.fi>

Hi Harri,

yes, only times in time stamps will be used in iCalendar export.   
Times in the headline
are too unpredictable.  The agenda uses them as a service because  
nothing really bad can happen.  But if you want consistency across  
applications, you should define times in a consistent way, i.e. in the  
stamp.

- Carsten

On Nov 11, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Harri Kiiskinen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when exporting org entries to icalendar files, I noticed a small bug.
>
> Both of these are valid in org-mode and result in similar entries in
> the agenda, with the date and time set:
>
> ---test.org---
> * Thing 16:00-18:00
>  <2008-11-11 Tue>
> * Another Thing
>  <2008-11-11 Tue 16:00-18:00>
> ---test.org---
>
> makes
>
> --
> Tuesday    11 November 2008
>               8:00...... ----------------
>              10:00...... ----------------
>              12:00...... ----------------
>              14:00...... ----------------
>              16:00...... ----------------
>  test:       16:00-18:00 Thing
>  test:       16:00-18:00 Another Thing
>              18:00...... ----------------
>              20:00...... ----------------
> --
>
> But when exported (org-export-icalendar-this-file; same behaviour with
> org-export-icalendar-combine-agenda-files), the times are set
> correctly only in the second, "Another Thing", whereas in the first,
> the time period ends up in the description, but not in the DTSTART -
> DTEND pair. See example:
>
> ---test.ics---
> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> VERSION:2.0
> X-WR-CALNAME:test
> PRODID:-//Harri Kiiskinen//Emacs with Org-mode//EN
> X-WR-TIMEZONE:EET
> CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
> BEGIN:VEVENT
> UID: TS-4tvh2qp0tfe0@localhost.localdomain.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me
> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081111
> DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081112
> SUMMARY:Thing 16:00-18:00
> DESCRIPTION: <2008-11-11 Tue>
> CATEGORIES:test
> END:VEVENT
> BEGIN:VEVENT
> UID: TS-bgki2qp0tfe0@localhost.localdomain.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me
> DTSTART:20081111T160000
> DTEND:20081111T180000
> SUMMARY:Another Thing
> DESCRIPTION: <2008-11-11 Tue 16:00-18:00>
> CATEGORIES:test
> END:VEVENT
> END:VCALENDAR
> ---test.ics---
>
> Best,
>
> Harri K.
>
>
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