From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ICS import?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:57:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4895.1337050676@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> of "Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:58:23 CST." <20120126005823.GC3747@x201>
Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:21:06PM -0500, Nick Dokos wrote:
> > Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> wrote:
> >
> > > It's awkward having to mail folks back and ask that they resend the
> > > date/time and details as text for me, just so I can manually enter
> > > them into my calendar.
> > >
> >
> > You don't need to do that: you can save the text/calendar attachment in
> > a file and then use icalendar-import-file on the file to get it into
> > your diary.
> >
> > You can then copy the data from your diary or if you do
> >
> > (setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
> >
> > it will then show up in your agenda and you can copy the data from
> > *there* into your appt.org or wherever.
>
> Wow! I had no idea that functionality was available. I just don't use
> diary... I'd prefer to use a capture buffer.
>
> I need to look into this further.
>
> > I suspect this is quicker (and certainly less awkward) than asking them
> > to send you text. The only downside is that you will not be a thorn on their
> > side any more, so they will feel free to continue with their uncivilized
> > ways - barbarians ;-)
>
> At least ics isn't xml. Then they'd be sparkly undead barbarians.
>
>
Just in case you actually use this method, there is a nasty bug in
icalendar.el that caused havoc with timezones (and no-shows at
meetings). The problem is that the vcalendar attachment contained time
zone specs like this:
TZID:(UTC+01:00) Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Bern\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna
with escaped commas, but icalendar.el did not unescape the commas on import
so when it tried to match timezones, it failed and left the time unchanged
(i.e at the sender's timezone, instead of the receiver's). The patch to fix
that is simple enough, and good enough for my purposes, although it's not
clear whether it's enough for all cases and/or the best possible[fn:1] (box-quoted
to make it not look like a patch and therefore keep it off patchwork - hope
that works):
,----
| diff --git a/icalendar.el b/icalendar.el
| index f1549ec..5d85b83 100644
| --- a/icalendar.el
| +++ b/icalendar.el
| @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ The strings are suitable for assembling into a TZ variable."
| (defun icalendar--parse-vtimezone (alist)
| "Turn a VTIMEZONE ALIST into a cons (ID . TZ-STRING).
| Return nil if timezone cannot be parsed."
| - (let* ((tz-id (icalendar--get-event-property alist 'TZID))
| + (let* ((tz-id (icalendar--convert-string-for-import (icalendar--get-event-property alist 'TZID)))
| (daylight (cadr (cdar (icalendar--get-children alist 'DAYLIGHT))))
| (day (and daylight (icalendar--convert-tz-offset daylight t)))
| (standard (cadr (cdar (icalendar--get-children alist 'STANDARD))))
`----
Footnotes:
[fn:1]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-15 2:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-08 20:41 Correct Way to Customize LaTeX Export? Peter Jones
2009-09-08 20:49 ` Russell Adams
[not found] ` <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
2009-09-08 21:11 ` Nick Dokos
2009-10-30 3:17 ` [OT] lisp func to write timestamp to buffer Nick Dokos
2011-07-24 15:58 ` Table formula to convert hex to dec Nick Dokos
2012-01-25 17:34 ` ICS import? Russell Adams
2012-01-25 17:50 ` Nick Dokos
[not found] ` <CALRk1sZc5JL_zY8Xnt+XDZfgqMmtQb4XXia4UmrP4f4sdOopCw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <3023.1327520270@alphaville>
[not found] ` <CALRk1sZ9YC9ftvB4wK84i4-68FF3kYPwhuYm9n=iwvsKerRMRQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <4180.1327526628@alphaville>
2012-01-25 22:26 ` Matthew Sauer
2012-01-25 23:51 ` Russell Adams
2012-01-26 0:03 ` Arun Persaud
2012-01-26 0:21 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-26 0:58 ` Russell Adams
2012-03-15 19:56 ` Latex Listings & Floats Nick Dokos
2012-03-19 15:56 ` table spreadsheet problem Nick Dokos
2012-03-19 16:05 ` Russell Adams
2012-03-19 16:25 ` Martin Halder
2012-03-19 17:42 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-19 17:54 ` Russell Adams
2012-03-19 18:01 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-19 18:21 ` Russell Adams
2012-05-15 2:57 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-05-15 3:03 ` ICS import? Nick Dokos
2012-08-10 6:41 ` [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode? Nick Dokos
2012-08-10 11:40 ` Sriram Karra
2012-08-10 14:03 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-21 22:06 ` Babel source blocks Nick Dokos
2012-11-21 22:15 ` Russell Adams
2012-11-21 22:44 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-21 22:53 ` Russell Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-07 0:17 contact management in org-mode? Lindsay Todd
2009-10-07 2:21 ` Maurizio Vitale
2009-10-07 4:16 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-10-25 2:34 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-25 6:04 ` Charles Philip Chan
2009-10-25 13:51 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-10-25 14:14 ` Charles Philip Chan
2009-10-25 14:18 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-25 14:22 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-29 7:58 ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
2009-10-29 15:46 ` Gregory J. Grubbs
2009-10-29 16:00 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-29 17:36 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-29 20:00 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-10-29 22:25 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-10-30 8:48 ` Uwe Jochum
2009-10-31 3:10 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-31 3:26 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-31 16:38 ` Gregory J. Grubbs
2009-11-20 14:32 ` Russell Adams
2012-07-19 11:10 ` [Orgmode] " Russell Adams
2012-07-20 0:57 ` Karl Voit
2012-08-08 12:04 ` Thomas Koch
2012-08-08 12:14 ` Bastien
2012-08-09 11:31 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2012-08-10 5:48 ` Russell Adams
2012-08-13 22:24 ` Semantics, Tagging, File systems, Tools, tagstore (was: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?) Karl Voit
2012-08-09 12:04 ` [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode? Sriram Karra
2009-11-02 10:37 ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
2009-11-08 5:59 ` Ben Finney
2009-11-08 14:52 ` Matt Lundin
2009-11-08 22:22 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-11 13:19 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-09 6:41 ` Gour
2009-11-15 20:50 ` Sean Sieger
2009-10-31 21:54 ` Shelagh Manton
2009-10-08 17:13 ` Sean Sieger
2009-10-29 23:29 [OT] lisp func to write timestamp to buffer Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-30 0:47 ` Russell Adams
2009-10-30 2:44 ` Nick Dokos
2009-10-30 2:53 ` Russell Adams
2011-02-27 1:36 Startup page Matthew Sauer
2011-02-27 2:57 ` Dan Davison
2011-02-28 20:35 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-27 10:15 ` Bastien
2011-02-27 14:03 ` Christian Mandel
2011-02-28 11:51 ` Konrad Hinsen
2011-03-11 5:59 ` Ido Magal
2011-03-11 7:56 ` Rainer M Krug
[not found] ` <improv.philosophy@gmail.com>
2011-03-06 2:49 ` Bug: Org-Contacts.el [7.4] U-SWEETSAUERPORT\Matthew Sauer
2011-03-06 4:47 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-06 19:50 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-06 20:02 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-06 23:20 ` Bastien
2011-03-07 1:26 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-07 17:32 ` Achim Gratz
2011-03-16 16:19 ` Re: [Orgmode] Startup page Matthew Sauer
2011-03-16 16:45 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-17 10:34 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-17 10:52 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-17 22:17 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-03-17 22:48 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-18 0:03 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-18 0:08 ` Bastien
2011-03-18 0:22 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-07-24 8:00 Table formula to convert hex to dec Russell Adams
2011-07-24 9:52 ` Michael Brand
2011-07-24 16:39 ` Michael Brand
2012-03-15 17:45 Latex Listings & Floats Russell Adams
2012-03-15 20:33 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-03-19 15:01 table spreadsheet problem Martin Halder
2012-03-19 15:32 ` Russell Adams
2012-03-19 15:45 ` Martin Halder
2012-03-19 15:48 ` Russell Adams
2012-11-21 21:15 Babel source blocks Russell Adams
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