From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: using org-mode with MS Outlook Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:12:15 +0000 Message-ID: <874o7ghuu8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <7254.1299193491@alphaville.usa.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51901 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwKJg-00077B-IT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:13:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwKJZ-0007tU-Ds for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:12:30 -0500 Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]:43392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwKJZ-0007tG-9c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:12:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7254.1299193491@alphaville.usa.hp.com> (Nick Dokos's message of "Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:04:51 -0500") 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: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Nick Dokos writes: > David Ellis wrote: > >> After I sent this email, I found ical2org.el. I saved a month of my >> calendar from Outlook to an iCalendar file. Then, I used >> ical2org/convert-file to convert it to an org file. All of the times >> were off by 6 hours. Since I live in the Central time zone in the US >> that is GMT-6, I wondered if this was the issue. When I used >> icalendar-import-file to convert the iCalendar file to a diary file, >> the times were okay. >> > > Where did you get ical2org.el? Does it use icalendar.el as distributed > with emacs? IME, the latter has a lot of problems with timezones > (based on a very cursory examination - I mean to go back to that but > haven't had the time), so if the former uses it, I wouldn't be > surprised to see timezone problems cropping up. > > I bet you would have better luck with the awk script, if only because > the two people who have worked on it (Eric Fraga who originated it and > Arun Persaud who has added functionality recently and has taken over > its care and feeding [fn:1]) are both regulars on this ML and *very* > responsive. > > Nick > > Footnotes: [fn:1] I hope this description is accurate but the > principals involved might have different ideas - this is just my > reading of the situation. Nick, yes, I think you got the summary about right. David, with respect to your original query, if you have a look at my original script, you'll see that the times should be adjusted for your time zone. Can you please have a look at the file exported by Google to see if the times are actually in your time zone or whether they have already been converted to UTC? Google does provide both options, as far as I remember (but Google does not really document much of these aspects and things do change). If you want, send me an extract of the ical formatted file and I will check it out. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 : using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.639.g1a03c.dirty)