Re: using org-mode with MS Outlook

[David Ellis <ddellis914@gmail.com>]

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 <ddellis914@gmail.com> 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
>