From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Ellis Subject: Re: using org-mode with MS Outlook Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:25:14 -0600 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47836 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvGxR-0000rd-9O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:25:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvGxO-0005Y5-WA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:25:16 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:63364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvGxO-0005Y0-QV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:25:14 -0500 Received: by yws5 with SMTP id 5so690480yws.0 for ; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:25:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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. I edited the iCalendar file and removed the timezone section which included the following: BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16011104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE After this ical2org/convert-file produced an org file with the correct times. The times in the iCalendar file produced by Outlook were in GMT. Is there a way to get this to work without manually editing the iCalendar file? -- David Ellis On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:31 PM, David Ellis wrote: > I would like to move my calendar and task data from MS Outlook into > org files. I would like to know if anyone has done this and what is > the best way to do this. I know that MS Outlook can export to an > icalendar file. So, if there is an easy way to import that into and > org file, that will solve the calendar issue. > > I appreciate any help you can provide. > > -- > David Ellis >