On 7/25/06, Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone have any opinions about what the current market leader is in free
software web calendaring? I'd like to install a calendar on my own
system rather than, say, use the Google thing.

Features desired:
- all the usual calendaring stuff: all day events, repeated events on
   crazy schedules
- ability to have more than one user each with their own calendar
- ability to handle daylight savings time
- ability to handle multiple time-zones without having to change a user
   or system wide setting, so that it's of some use when travelling

I currently use WebCalendar (http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php) which is
not too bad until you get to timezones. It handles them very badly: you
change a user setting to switch between +10 and +11 GMT (ie the DST
setting), and all your appointments move regardless of which side of the
DST switch they fall on.

-Mary
 

I used to use Kronolith, from the Horde project (http://www.horde.org/kronolith/). It was very good-looking, and very capable at the time (~3 years ago), so I imagine it's even better now. I can't comment on the timezone issues though..

However, Kronolith requires the Horde framework, which itself has a lot of PHP dependencies. If you're willing to do a lot of groundwork to get it in place (or use debian and know how to apt-get install kronolith[1]) it's worthwhile; but it's a lot of work. If you're looking for something simple, it's not for you.

[1] Actually, it's not that simple. Even after you install kronolith and it's dependencies, there's a fair bit [2] of editing of config files to point it at your database, configure the bits of horde to work together, etc.

[2] or there was last time I did this anyway, but that was threeish years ago. If this has changed, I'd love for someone to tell me - I've been wanting to set it up again but been deterred by the amount of time it would take..
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