might be a bug with zimbra as well because using an external calendar has
very few time syncing options, and it shows the meetings happening at 10am
in the morning.

http://ikt.id.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/zimbracal.png

Making a quick post on the zimbra forums about it.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM, MoLE <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 17 March 2011 22:12, George Patterson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I'm of the opinion that the RSS calendar feeds should have their
> > events in UTC and the clients should adjust to the user preferences.
> > Mainly because the concept of local time breaks when you try and
> > bridge it over different timezones. You may not know what time offset
> > you are from another location but you will know the offset from UTC.
> >
> > (Yes, that is basically what Jared has stated but wanted to add extra
> weight.)
> > There should be a script out there that would act as a proxy to
> > re-write the rss/ical/whatever with the appropriate timezone applied,
> > but again you need to know what the user's timezone is.
>
>
> I agree - I suspect there is a limitation / bug in the lightning code
> which doesn't accurately recognise the UTC field in the ics file and
> compensate for the local offset.
>
> Google Calendar does this job fine - so could act as the script that
> George mentions.
>
> I haven't tested if the same bug is present in Evolution - but I can
> if there is any interest.
>
> On a further point - I'm happy to just have one source for calendaring
> info - I'm happy if that is the loco.u.com site rather than u.org.au.
>
> It makes sense to keep the most up to date site (in terms of drupal
> version) the current one, pending an upgrade of the ubuntu.org.au
> drupal backend.
>
> Cheers all,
>
>
> MoLE
>
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