Thanks. I'm using Operator 0.7, Firefox 2.0.0.5 / Win.
Rebecca On 7/20/07, Mike Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Operator should be converting that tzoffset (+1200) and passing it to Google Calendar correctly. What version of Operator are you using? Mike Kaply On 7/19/07, Rebecca Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if this has previously been asked. > > I've been trying out hcalendar and been having some issues with the > datetime format. > > I'm in New Zealand (UTC +12), am using Operator to add my hcalendar > events to Google calendar. > > If I use the hcalendar creator > http://microformats.org/code/hcalendar/creator - this puts in the time > format with offset from UTC appended, like so: > > <abbr class="dtstart" title="20070720T0900+1200">July 20, 2007 9am</abbr> > > All good, but Google Calendar doesn't like it, gives an error when you > try to add an event to your calendar via Operator. > > If I markup times with no UTC offset, ie in my local time: > > <abbr class="dtstart" title="20070720T0900">July 20, 2007 9am</abbr> > > Google Calendar will grab the event OK, all good under the assumption > that the time is given for timezone of the event's location. Not so > useful if the event is online or otherwise more than one timezone. > > If I markup times in UTC time, but display the NZ time eg: > > <abbr class="dtstart" title="20070719T2100Z">July 20, 2007 9am NZT</abbr> > > Google Calendar also likes this one, and will convert the UTC time to > my local time. Useful, but perhaps doesn't give the user enough > control over how the timezones are handled? > > Perhaps this is a non issue. Say someone in the UK added my event, to > be held in New Zealand, to their Google Calendar. It would get > displayed to them in UK time. Then say they travelled for the event, > and switched their calendar timezone to NZ time while they were here, > so keeping to the correct time for the event. I guess the issue is > making it clear to the user that this is what will happen? > > My thoughts are, for an event located in New Zealand perhaps do something like: > > <abbr class="dtstart" title="20070719T2100Z">July 20, 2007 9am NZT, > (July 19, 2007 9pm UTC)</abbr> > > What are people's thoughts on giving times, would you normally just > give the local time and not worry about timezones? What about for > online events where the timezone does matter? > > Also wondering if any of the other hcalendar - using applications or > services have problems when times are given with the offset? > (20070720T0900+1200) > > Cheers, > Rebecca > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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