From: Michael Markert <markert.michael@googlemail.com>
To: David Ellis <ddellis914@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using org-mode with MS Outlook
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:23:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hcfu6te.wl%markert.michael@googlemail.com> (raw)
On 4 Mar 2011, Nick Dokos wrote:
> David Ellis <ddellis914@gmail.com> 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.
Yes it's based on Emacs' icalendar.org; I'll look into the issue, but
currently short on time - so you might be better of with the Awk
solution right now.
In case anybody wants to hack on it himself/herself Repository is on
Github[1].
It was on the list a few weeks before [2].
Michael
Footnotes:
[1] https://github.com/cofi/ical2org
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/35555
next reply other threads:[~2011-03-03 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 23:23 Michael Markert [this message]
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2011-03-03 20:31 using org-mode with MS Outlook David Ellis
2011-03-03 21:42 ` Rehan Iftikhar
2011-03-03 22:02 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-03 22:25 ` David Ellis
2011-03-03 23:04 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-06 20:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-04 6:10 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2011-03-04 19:23 ` Bastien
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