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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: iCal export - possible timezone bug
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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