[kronolith] Events show up at different times in differnet caldav clients

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Thu Jul 4 12:59:34 UTC 2013


Zitat von Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli at giritli.eu>:

> On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 11:30 +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli at giritli.eu>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm syncing caldav calendar over 2 other clients and the event times do
>> > not match with any of them! All events in the horde look 2 hours earlier
>> > in Evolution and 1 hour later in android client. First thing I did was
>> > to check the time zone of the events and they are all correctly
>> > specified.
>> >
>> > What might be going on here?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> Impossible to tell with this information. Obviously 2 of those 3
>> parties are wrong.
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> After consulting with Android caldav client's author, this is the
> information I got from him:
>
>
> DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20111117T200000Z
> DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20111117T204501Z
>
> That's an ambiguous time zone specification. There is a "Z" which means
> "UTC", but there is a TZID that specifies another time zone too.
> That's a bug in Horde.
>
> I guess the event is meant to start at 20:00 CET. In that case these
> line should look like
>
> DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20111117T200000
> DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20111117T204501
>
> Another uncommon thing that sticks out is that the actual time zone
> definition (the VTIMEZONE part) is at the end of the file. I think
> that's correct, but it's very uncommon. Some clients might fail here.

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-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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