On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 09:27 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 22:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > DTSTART:20130602T180000 > > > DTEND:20130602T190000 > > > > Hm, that's odd. Shouldn't those end with a 'Z' to indicate that they are > > in GMT? Then they'd be correct, right? The meeting was actually at 18:00 > > GMT? > > Hi, > let's call it UTC, not GMT, to have same terminology as in RFC.
I sometimes like to use 'GMT' just to reinforce the "GMT does *not* mean UK time" message. :) > Date/time stored this way, without timezone, is called "floating" [1], > which means that it's in your case between 18 - 19 in whatever timezone > you see the event. If you read the section at [1] carefully, then you'll > notice that it's not good to use floating times, thus I'd say that the > phone software is a bit lazy (though it depends on actual data received > from the Exchange server). > > A bug on evolution's side might be that it doesn't convert the time to > your Europe/Oslo timezone, but rather to UTC, It's allowed to convert it to UTC. And as I said, I'd usually expect *Exchange* do to that for a non-recurring meeting anyway. > and then convert it to Europe/Oslo, When you display a meeting, it's always converted to the local timezone, whatever that happens to be at the time. -- dwmw2
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