Investigating this issue, will let you know.  Thanks for reporting!

Austin

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Alex King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Hello--
>
> It appears that the events have reverted back to the:
>
> DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20080714T090000
> DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20080714T100000
>
> format.
>
> Is this a permanent change back?
>
> Cheers,
> --Alex
>
> On Jul 16, 11:58 am, "Austin (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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..
> ..
> > > ..
> >
> > > > 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
>
> >
>

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