From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Riley Subject: Re: iCal export - possible timezone bug Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 17:02:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4a04496f.0405560a.3a5c.55ad@mx.google.com> References: <49f377d1.0407560a.5f0d.3c81@mx.google.com> <4a0193b6.1438560a.1123.58e4@mx.google.com> <672F1C42-93DC-418A-A252-73BFE3E388C1@gmail.com> <4a031359.0437560a.3c1c.4e49@mx.google.com> <13062.1241718356@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> <22AF8CD5-782F-4BBD-B12E-11F1F2CA024E@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2RaX-0007VC-HQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 11:02:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2RaV-0007V0-2w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 11:02:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54329 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2RaU-0007Ux-Ta for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 11:02:10 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:5031) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2RaU-0005Qp-Ai for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 11:02:10 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so132907fgb.7 for ; Fri, 08 May 2009 08:02:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <22AF8CD5-782F-4BBD-B12E-11F1F2CA024E@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri, 8 May 2009 09:18:11 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: org-mode , Richard Riley Carsten Dominik writes: > On May 7, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > >> Richard Riley wrote: >> >>> Carsten Dominik 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. > > > OK, good idea, done. > > Note however that Org does store time and date without > time zone information attached to it, so changing the TZ environment > variable will not change the display in the agenda etc. Where is the best place to set this TZ in a Linux environment so that emacs picks it up on a gnome desktop? I tried in my .xinitrc and my .bashrc and my /etc/bash.bashrc and it didn't seem to pick up for the export correctly.