[horde] possible solution for: All-day events with different timezone span days

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Steffen <skhorde at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de>:

> Hi,
>
> when I create an all-day event with timezone UTC within the GUI, but  
> my default timezone is "Europe/Berlin" aka MEST aka UTC+2, the event  
> span two days, because the event starts at 02:00. That's true, too,  
> when the event gets synchronized to Android via ActiveSync or  
> Lightning via CalDAV.
>
> Do I create an all-day event with UTC in an ActiveSync Android  
> device, the event is displayed as "all-day" event in the GUI as  
> well, but do not span days.
>
> The "trick" maybe is, that the all-day event of Android does not  
> have no timezone at all or, to phrase it differently, the GUI  
> displays the all-day event with the default timezone. In fact, as  
> soon as I select "all-day" on the Android device the timezone  
> selection becomes inaccessable.

Correct. ActiveSync passes all time data for events (all-day or not)  
as UTC (converted from the client's configured default timezone). Once  
imported into Horde, it gets converted into the Horde default timezone.


-- 
mike

The Horde Project (www.horde.org)
mrubinsk at horde.org
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