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From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: iCal export - possible timezone bug
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In-Reply-To: <E5C79048-C1D4-42A1-ABBB-E31CB70F3C66@gmail.com> (Carsten
	Dominik's message of "Wed, 6 May 2009 12:57:17 +0200")
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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
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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?

Seeing my org-mode todos on my blackberry courtesy of Google calendar is
pretty neat!

cheers,

r.