Recurring events with timezone

[Hendrik Helwich]

Hi Andrew,

Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2010 15:25:43 schrieb Andrew McMillan:
>[..]
> > So the question is: What would be the right way of treating it?
>
> The right way is to leave the decision to the person creating the event,
> allowing them to include a timezone identifying the local time of the
> event.  They might then say that the local time zone is "UTC" if that is
> what they want.  The use of UTC in this way seems to be a more common
> approach for fairly geeky groups, but my own experience suggests that
> teleconferences involving higher level managers generally seem to be
> scheduled in someone's local timezone.

This sounds reasonable. it is also how it is done in evolution (Which uses 
iCalendar internally). So our problem would be solved perfectly if the kolab 
format could be adapted in this way.

>[..]
> The proposed xcalendar format is based on mapping the iCalendar data
> structure into XML while retaining bidirectional convertability.

Sounds interesting. Is this the related link?:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-royer-calsch-xcal-03

Greets,
Hendrik

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