[kronolith] Re: [imp] timezone calculation

[Jan Schneider]

Sounds interesting, I'll take a look at it.

Thanks, Jan.

Zitat von kellan <kellan@protest.net>:

> well your next message said to forget it, but i'll respond anyway :)
> 
> ximian has created a collection of VTIMEZONE (ical timezone) objects that
> correspond to the America/New York zones.  these contain not only the
> offsets from GMT, but also daylight savings info, in a relatively easy
> format to parse. from there its simple to calculate the differences.
> 
> http://primates.ximian.com/~damon/icalendar/
> 
> and you get an abstraction from the server's timezone handling.
> 
> kellan
> 
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Jan Schneider wrote:
> 
> > Zitat von Atif Ghaffar <aghaffar@developer.ch>:
> >
> > > > I
> > > > Already did a very small pathch to kronolith to handle timezones but
> this
> > > one
> > > > has to be changed now.
> > > > The problem to solve is the fact that mcal probably doesn't support
> the
> > > "TZ"
> > > > env var neither does the upcoming sql driver. And how can we
> calculate
> > > timezone
> > > > differences out of timezone entries like "Europe/Berlin"?
> > >
> > > The timezone should be recorded as an offset to GMT etc.
> > > Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/e-reminders/
> > > This might give you some ideas.
> >
> > Hm, but we are recording timezone now as "America/New_York",
> "Europe/Berlin"
> > etc. and we need to find a way to calculate timezone differences from
> these
> > entries.
> > Do you know of any tool that may be able to handle this? It doesn't make
> sense
> > to create different entries for timezones for the different horde apps.
> >
> > Jan.
> >
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