[kronolith] Timezone issue when importing Google ical files

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Mon Nov 18 09:01:19 UTC 2013


Zitat von Erik Quaeghebeur <horde at equaeghe.nospammail.net>:

> Hi,
>
>
> I would like to import my Google calendars. On the Google side, I  
> have exported them to ical files. After importing them in Horde, I  
> noticed that the time was off one or two hours. Looking in the ical  
> file itself, I saw that Kronloth shows the listed (UTC?) times, but  
> that there was a X-WR-TIMEZONE field that, I guess, Google uses to  
> get the actual, timezoned time.
>
> How can I import the calendar differently, or pre-process the ical  
> file to make sure Horde has takes the timezone data into account? (I  
> know that the X-WR-TIMEZONE header is non-standard...)
>
> The calendar in question, edited down to one entry:
>
> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN
> VERSION:2.0
> CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
> METHOD:PUBLISH
> X-WR-CALNAME:EDITED
> X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Brussels
> X-WR-CALDESC:
> BEGIN:VEVENT
> DTSTART:20120802T035700Z
> DTEND:20120802T035700Z
> DTSTAMP:20131112T143455Z
> UID:EDITED
> ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;CN=EDITED;
>  X-NUM-GUESTS=0:<snip>
> CREATED:20120511T132035Z
> DESCRIPTION:
> LAST-MODIFIED:20120814T123144Z
> LOCATION:EDITED
> SEQUENCE:2
> STATUS:CONFIRMED
> SUMMARY:EDITED
> TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
> END:VEVENT
> END:VCALENDAR
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik

The event definition is crystal clear. The event is from 3:57 UTC to 3:57 UTC.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/



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