Re: zogi and daylight savings

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On Tue Jun 09 2009 21:24:56 GMT+0200 (CEST), Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 06:39 +0200, Tobias Kaefer wrote:
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>> On Mon Jun 08 2009 19:14:53 GMT+0200 (CEST), Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote=
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>>> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:38 +0200, Tobias Kaefer wrote:
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>>> I'll make a fix to not convert to GMT for schedular operations if a
>>> timeZone was provided; it looks like it should still work.
>> That's very good to hear (or read)!
>> By "if a timeZone was provided" do you mean, provided with the
>> start/end-Date or as an extra parameter in the putObject request?
>=20
> A timezone can be provided when the appointment is created/updated by
> including a "timezone" attribute in the appointment dictionary.  If no
> "timezone" attribute exists then the operation occurs as GMT.  AFAIK th=
e
> timezone portion (if any) of the actual "start" and "end" attributes is
> completely ignored.  It was originally intended that ALL client/server
> communication would be in GMT - but this proved to much of a burden for
> some clients so the "timezone" support was added.  The example you
> submitted for Issue#33 included the timezone attribute
> <http://code.google.com/p/zogi/issues/detail?id=3D33>
>=20

Ah yes. I hadn't had the correct syntax in mind for the putObject
method. You are right.

I agree with you, that the best way would be to have the client/server
communication in GMT/UTC, but since there are those nasty daylight
savings for some timezones, there is a need for providing those
timezones (especially for recurrent appointments).

Tobias



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