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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Patch that enables visibility settings in org-mode iCalendar
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:13:50 +0200
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To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
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Hello,

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Hey, now's the time to bring up something I've wanted to do for
> a while:

I think this deserves its own thread.

> adding support for per-entry timezones to the ical export. 

It sounds good.

> I've attached a draft patch that shows what I mean. Basically you give
> an entry a TIMEZONE property in the tz database format (eg
> "Europe/London") and it will pass that on to the DTSTART/DTEND
> properties.
>
> I suppose it would also be possible to have separate properties for
> start and end timezones, then we could do plane trips!

Right. But since Org doesn't support time zones, the usefulness may be
limited.

> +When optional argument TZ is non-nil, timezone data time will be
> +added to the timestamp.  It can be the string \"UTC\", to use UTC
> +time, or a string in the IANA TZ database
> +format (e.g. \"Europe/London\").  In either case, the value of
> +`org-icalendar-date-time-format' will be ignored."

I suggest to have symbol t as an equivalent to "UTC", for compatibility
with, e.g., ZONE in `format-time-string'.

Thank you for the work.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou