Hi, Thanks for updating us on the PHP iCalendar and thank you for the work on that project. Regarding the ICS formart, it will remain the way of using GMT as the timezone qualifier from now on.
Thanks, Austin On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Alex King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I've actually located the bug in the PHP iCalendar code. A > global calendar timezone variable is referenced in the extractDateTime > function but is never brought into scope so things don't work > properly. I'll see about getting a patch back to PHP iCalendar. If > anyone else needs this or wants to help review the patch, please let > me know. I'll move further discussion to the proper PHP iCalendar > online resources. > > Thanks. > > --Alex > > On Jul 15, 9:22 pm, Alex King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi-- > > > > It appears that this change has "broken" Google Calendar iCalendars in > > PHP iCalendar. > > > > Perhaps this has really just exposed a bug in PHP iCalendar's event > > parsing, but events are now appearing at incorrect times in PHP > > iCalendar. I did a (very) brief review of the PHP iCalendar calendar > > parsing code: > > > > > http://phpicalendar.cvs.sourceforge.net/phpicalendar/phpicalendar/fun...http://phpicalendar.cvs.sourceforge.net/phpicalendar/phpicalendar/fun. > .. > > > > see function extractDateTime() in date_functions.php where the event > > times are parsed. > > > > Can you confirm that this is a permanent change in the data format? If > > so, I'll see about hacking the PHP iCalendar code. If not, I'll wait > > until the change is rolled back. > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Cheers, > > --Alex King > > > > http://alexking.org > > > > On Jul 15, 11:39 am, "Austin (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > We changed the format of the ics file to return times in GMT times for > > > single events. This change is due to the fact that many older versions > of > > > outlook with bad timezone definitions were unable to handle times in > local > > > time properly. > > > > > I would recommend using standard timezone libraries like ICU4C or Joda > time > > > to perform timezone conversions. > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > Austin > > > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Paco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > Starting today the ICS file (exporting calendar events) has changed > > > > the DTSTART and DTEND for existing events. > > > > > > Yesterday, the following was retrieved for an event: > > > > > > DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20080714T090000 > > > > DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20080714T100000 > > > > > > And now I retrieved the following for the same event: > > > > > > DTSTART:20080714T070000Z > > > > DTEND:20080714T080000Z > > > > > > As you can see there is a difference of 2 hours ( I guess for the > > > > timezone). > > > > > > How can I get events in the yestarday's format? or is this caused by > a > > > > temporary error/change in Google? > > > > > > In order to circunvent this problem with my application, how can I > > > > determine the real time taking in account the timezone and dayligth > > > > saving as reported in the ICS file? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Paco > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
