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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: iCal export - possible timezone bug
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:50:22 +0200
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On May 6, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Richard Riley wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Richard Riley wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My ics file exported from org has the following content:
>>>
>>> X-WR-TIMEZONE:CEST
>>>
>>> However, in Google calendar, it says the imported calendar is
>>>
>>> 	(GMT+00:00) GMT (no daylight saving)
>>>
>>>
>>> A quick Google for ical and timezone makes me believe the format  
>>> might
>>> need to be
>>>
>>> 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