Hi, I am having an issue creating an event that displays in the
correct time zone in google calendar. Here are the steps that I'm
using:
1. In your google calendar, set the default calendar time zone to
'US/Eastern'. You can set the default time zone by clicking the
"Settings" link underneath the list of calendars, and then clicking
the "General" tab.
2. Create another calendar, called "Pacific", and set the time zone to
'US/Pacific'.
3. Using the google api in python, I then add an event to the Pacific
calendar and I send the start time and end time in UTC, with a "Z" at
the end of the string.
4. When I login to the calendar, the event that I added to the Pacific
calendar is displayed with a time corresponding to the Eastern time
zone.
The code that I use to accomplish step 3 is listed below. Also, if
anyone knows an easier way to obtain the correct calendar feed
(currently I do it by string parsing) that would be appreciated.
Cheers.
Tim
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import sys
import atom
import gdata.contacts
import gdata.contacts.service
import gdata.calendar
import gdata.calendar.service
def main():
# edit these fields
email = '[email protected]'
password = 'password'
calendarName = 'pacific'
start_time = '2009-07-14T12:00:00.000Z'
end_time = '2009-07-14T15:00:00.000Z'
# get credentials
gd_calendar = gdata.calendar.service.CalendarService()
gd_calendar.email = email
gd_calendar.password = password
gd_calendar.source = 'test-timezone-Adapter'
gd_calendar.ProgrammaticLogin()
# get the primary calendar
feed = gd_calendar.GetOwnCalendarsFeed()
# find the specific calendar
calendarFeed = None
for entry in feed.entry:
if entry.title.text == calendarName:
calendarFeed = entry
break
if not calendarFeed:
print "Error finding calendar '{0}'".format(calendarName)
return 1
# there is probably an easier way to find the calendar id, but I don't
know it!
lnk = calendarFeed.id.text
start = lnk.rfind('/') + 1
end = lnk.find('%40group.calendar.google.com')
calendarFeed =
"/calendar/feeds/{[email protected]/private/full".format(lnk[start:end])
# create a new event
googleEvent = gdata.calendar.CalendarEventEntry()
googleEvent.title = atom.Title(text='the subject')
googleEvent.content = atom.Content(text='a description')
googleEvent.where.append(gdata.calendar.Where(value_string='a
location'))
googleEvent.when.append(gdata.calendar.When(start_time=start_time,
end_time=end_time))
new_event = gd_calendar.InsertEvent(googleEvent, calendarFeed)
if not new_event:
print "Error creating event."
return 1
print "Created event at start time '{0}' in calendar '{1}'".format( \
start_time, calendarName)
return 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())
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