Eric, Your awk seems to get timed appts in GMT
How can I adapt it to GMT-3 Daniel 2010/6/29 Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk>: > Hello, > > I finally got myself an Android phone (and am loving it, especially > with an "all you can eat" data plan :-). I have tried mobileorg for > Android but it's obviously early days and it's actually not really > what I want. > > However, I am very happy with the Google syncing provided by the > phone, both for email and for the calendar. This has caused me to > revisit the possibility of a smoother integration between Google's > calendar and org-mode. > > First, I have created an awk script (yes, I'm dating myself: I do use > awk in preference to perl et al.) which allows me to convert the iCal > export from Google calendar to a sequence of org headlines (see > attached). It's a preliminary version and seems to translate what I > need: simple day and timed events, mostly those that I will tend to do > on the phone as opposed to when I'm at my computer. I'm not trying > for a comprehensive translation program here... but I'm putting it on > the list in case anybody finds it useful. > > I use this script as follows: > > wget [address specified by google for my calendar] --> basic.ics > awk -f ical2org.awk < basic.ics >> googlecalendar.org > > this appends any entries in my specific google calendar to the given > org file. When I go the other way (creating an ics file from org), I > import the org items into a different calendar on google. When > entries have been synced, I typically delete the original entries > placed in google to avoid them being downloaded over and over again > [1]. > > * A feature request: time prompt for insert diary agenda function > > Anyway, my increased use of google's calendar, has highlighted a > short-coming (?) of the agenda view (or more strictly speaking, the > iCal exporter): entries in which the time of appointment, say, is on > the headline but the date is on the following line, say, get converted > to "day" events as opposed to day+time events. I.e. something like > > * 11am meeting with colleages > <2010-06-30 Wed> > > does not get exported as a timed event. Obviously, the easy solution > is to put the time in the date stamp. However, I like using the > "insert diary" function in the agenda view for defining appointments > and this doesn't allow the time to be specified other than in a > headline. Would it be possible to enhance the insert diary function > to prompt for a time (and while we're at it, tags as well)? > > Thanks, > eric > > > Footnotes: > [1] it may be possible to use the unique ID for each event to avoid creating > duplicates... something to look at in the future. > > > -- > Eric S Fraga > GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
