Timezone / recurrence scheduling discussion for Kolab

[Georg C. F. Greve]

On Wednesday 03 November 2010 13.21:23 David Jarvie wrote:
> I'm not familiar with how Kolab stores its data, so I don't know what
> restrictions there are. From my experience, the only way to make this work
> reliably is to store the recurrence time as a local time with associated
> time zone (which is how the meeting time is actually specified by the
> person organising it), as in iCalendar. Then each client can convert the
> time to its own time zone, without any risk of error.

That is one of the proposed solutions, yes.

The only issue I currently see with it would be that we'd likely break 
backward compatibility, so there is a chance of confusion/data corruption 
between clients supporting format <=2.0, which assume storage in UTC, and 
those supporting 2.1 and greater, which would then store local time, both 
using the same tag for storage.

Does anyone have a good idea how to avoid this in a non-ugly way?

Best regards,
Georg


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