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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Martin Apel <martin.apel@3ds.com>
Cc: 56125@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56125: 28.1; Timezone conversion sometimes wrong for recurring events, when importing ical to diary
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:39:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edzfy5gf.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6a33d3s.fsf@3ds.com> (Martin Apel's message of "Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:06:59 +0200")

Martin Apel <martin.apel@3ds.com> writes:

> I suppose, that it would be a major undertaking to teach the diary
> about timezones. As this is a personal diary it probably also doesn't
> make too much sense. Therefore I wonder, if it wouldn't be the better
> approach, to split a recurring event from ical into separate events in
> the diary.

If you have an event that repeats yearly, that's a lot of entries.  But
more importantly, you don't know a year in advance what the actual time
is going to be until much later -- gummints change time zone rules on a
whim, and a 4:00 PM event in New York time may or may not be 22:00
German time in five months time -- you can't tell in advance.

The only way to make this work reliably is to store the actual time zone
of the event.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-23 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-21 14:21 bug#56125: 28.1; Timezone conversion sometimes wrong for recurring events, when importing ical to diary Martin Apel via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-21 18:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-21 22:10   ` Phil Sainty
2022-06-22  6:10   ` Martin Apel via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-23  8:48     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-23 10:06       ` Martin Apel via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-23 11:39         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-06-23 11:55           ` Martin Apel via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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