From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Markert Subject: Re: using org-mode with MS Outlook Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:23:41 +0100 Message-ID: <877hcfu6te.wl%markert.michael@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41855 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvHvZ-0004OQ-FU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:27:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvHvY-0006Bj-7J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:27:25 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:44465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvHvY-0006Ba-0z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:27:24 -0500 Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so1893446bwz.0 for ; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:27:22 -0800 (PST) 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: David Ellis Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 4 Mar 2011, Nick Dokos wrote: > 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. 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