* ical export -> google calendar woes
@ 2010-09-10 15:23 Neal Thomison
2010-09-10 16:21 ` Rémi Vanicat
2010-09-11 19:08 ` Neal Thomison
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Neal Thomison @ 2010-09-10 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
All,
I'm experiencing one of those "the last 10% of the problem takes 90% of
the time" moments.
I'm doing a combined ical export over all of my .org files, which works
fine. I then copy the resulting .ics file off to my web server to which
I've pointed a Google calendar (an "add by url" calendar) which also
works, after a fashion. The irritation is that no matter what I try and
do, Google insists on seeing the calendar timezone as GMT, hence, all of
my appointments are appearing 4 hours early (my TZ is EST5EDT but EST or
"America/Indianapolis" or "America/Indiana/Indianapolis" all don't work
either). I've set 'org-icalendar-timezone' and I see X-WR-TIMEZONE set
correctly in the resulting .ics file.
As an experiment, I hand edited the exported .ics file and added a
"TZNAME: EST5EDT" before copying it up to my web server and it works
fine; my appointments are show at the correct times.
I've googled enough to know that there are fair number of people with a
lot of angst over the timezone support in gcal but this feels like a
much more pedestrian issue than what the bulk of those post are focusing
on.
Am I missing a config parameter somewhere? Do I need a special
incantation or naming convention when I do an "add by url"?
My setup is: emacs 24.0.50.2 and org-mode 7.01trans.
Thanks,
Neal
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* Re: ical export -> google calendar woes
2010-09-10 15:23 ical export -> google calendar woes Neal Thomison
@ 2010-09-10 16:21 ` Rémi Vanicat
2010-09-10 16:23 ` Rémi Vanicat
2010-09-11 19:08 ` Neal Thomison
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rémi Vanicat @ 2010-09-10 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Neal Thomison <neal.thomison3@verizon.net> writes:
> All,
>
> I'm experiencing one of those "the last 10% of the problem takes 90% of
> the time" moments.
>
> I'm doing a combined ical export over all of my .org files, which works
> fine. I then copy the resulting .ics file off to my web server to which
> I've pointed a Google calendar (an "add by url" calendar) which also
> works, after a fashion. The irritation is that no matter what I try and
> do, Google insists on seeing the calendar timezone as GMT, hence, all of
> my appointments are appearing 4 hours early (my TZ is EST5EDT but EST or
> "America/Indianapolis" or "America/Indiana/Indianapolis" all don't work
> either).
The patch I just send here
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/30207) should solve this
issue.
--
Rémi Vanicat
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* Re: ical export -> google calendar woes
2010-09-10 16:21 ` Rémi Vanicat
@ 2010-09-10 16:23 ` Rémi Vanicat
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rémi Vanicat @ 2010-09-10 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org> writes:
[...]
> The patch I just send here
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/30207) should solve this
> issue.
Mmm sending mail too early....
With this patch you have to set org-icalendar-use-UTC-date-time to t
for it to work.
--
Rémi Vanicat
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* Re: ical export -> google calendar woes
2010-09-10 15:23 ical export -> google calendar woes Neal Thomison
2010-09-10 16:21 ` Rémi Vanicat
@ 2010-09-11 19:08 ` Neal Thomison
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Neal Thomison @ 2010-09-11 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Neal Thomison <neal.thomison3@verizon.net> writes:
> ... Google insists on seeing the calendar timezone as GMT, hence, all of
> my appointments are appearing 4 hours early (my TZ is EST5EDT but EST or
> "America/Indianapolis" or "America/Indiana/Indianapolis" all don't work
> either). I've set 'org-icalendar-timezone' and I see X-WR-TIMEZONE set
> correctly in the resulting .ics file.
All,
Following up to myself.
With a working example of X-WR-TIMEZONE from Richard Riley and a night's
sleep under my belt, I revisted setting 'org-icalendar-timezone' to my
time zone ("America/Indiana/Indianapolis") and this time it worked. Not
quite sure what happened yesterday but I suspect that my calendar was
being cached at Google and therefore did not reflect my furious cycle of
change/push/refresh as I tried different settings.
This thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=4655879e5ebc62f7&hl=en
laments the lack of timely refreshing of subscribed calendars and seems
to suggest that the refresh cycle may be as long as 24 hours. I can't
confirm that yet but I'm still waiting. It seems to be at least several
hours long.
Neal
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