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 10:48:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsjvzrxv.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edzh1aqf.fsf@3ds.com> (Martin Apel's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:10:34 +0200")
Martin Apel <martin.apel@3ds.com> writes:
> Maybe this is a more general problem, that the diary does not consider
> timezones at all. I think, that the conversion functionality would
> need to convert each date of a recurring event separately, as the
> daylight savings time might have changed between consecutive
> repetitions.
Yes, for repeating events, diary has to keep track of what the original
time zone (and time) is, and convert from that time each day. I've
skimmed the diary functions, and it doesn't seem like that's something
the diary functions have taken into accound, so patches welcome.
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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 [this message]
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
2022-06-23 11:55 ` Martin Apel via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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