Re: Re: org-mode and Google Calendar

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Sep 29, 2007, at 16:21, Bastien wrote:

> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>
>>> I just point google calendar to this file. The only problem I have 
>>> had
>>> is with google calendars timezone handling.
>
> Talking about the .ics export, I find the new DESCRIPTION very useful.
>
> But maybe org-trim could be used here, so that leading and trailing
> whitespaces are stripped away?

ok.

>
>   DESCRIPTION: \nAAAI Spring Symposium - March 26-28, 2008, Stanford
>   University,\nCalifornia - Submission deadline:
>
> And maybe this description field could also skip timestamps that are 
> not
> SCHEDULED or DEADLINE. I often use such timestamps and the description
> shows them, which looks weird:
>
>   DESCRIPTION:     <2007-12-19 mer>

Not sure about that, how to decide what is important and what not?

>
> Last but not least: now that we have properties, it would be very nice
> to be able to export a :LOCATION: property into the LOCATION vCal 
> field.
> Having to store the location in the description is okay, but I think 
> the
> location property is quite usual -- what do people think on this?

Yes, now is the time, and this will be in 5.11.

Thanks.

- Carsten