I'll wager a guess. If you allow UTC EXDATEs, then when the user changes their timezone it's a pain to convert the EXDATE into the new timezone due to DST. So in order to sidestep this headache, it's simply unsupported. I have no idea whether this guess is correct or not :P
Have fun, Peter On 8/4/06, Scott Herscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all that have responded to my questions. I think I've got this > e-cal and e-book backend stuff licked at this point. > > But since I'm writing this...what the hell...I'll ask one more question. > I've noticed that Evolution doesn't seem to like UTC specified times in > EXDATE or RECURRENCE-ID statements. In other words, this works: > > BEGIN:VEVENT > UID:70209cba-ae85-47e0-bcd0-49cbd70683d4 > DTSTAMP:20060804T175402Z > X-ZAPPTID:8595 > X-ZINVID:8595-8597 > X-ZCOMPID:0 > SUMMARY:aaa > STATUS:CONFIRMED > DTSTART;TZID=(GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) / Tijuana: > 20060801T103000 > CLASS:PRIVATE > ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > TRANSP:TRANSPARENT > DTEND;TZID=(GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) / Tijuana: > 20060801T113000 > RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=5;INTERVAL=1 > SEQUENCE:2 > EXDATE;TZID=(GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) / > Tijuana:20060802T103000 > END:VEVENT > > And this doesn't. > > BEGIN:VEVENT > UID:70209cba-ae85-47e0-bcd0-49cbd70683d4 > DTSTAMP:20060804T175402Z > X-ZAPPTID:8595 > X-ZINVID:8595-8597 > X-ZCOMPID:0 > SUMMARY:aaa > STATUS:CONFIRMED > DTSTART;TZID=(GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) / Tijuana: > 20060801T103000 > CLASS:PRIVATE > ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > TRANSP:TRANSPARENT > DTEND;TZID=(GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) / Tijuana: > 20060801T113000 > RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=5;INTERVAL=1 > SEQUENCE:2 > EXDATE:20060802T173000Z > END:VEVENT > > > I've looked at this for a long time, and it seems like it should work, but > Evolution doesn't seem to like it. > > Anybody have any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers > _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
