Re: A doubt about date

Javier Reyna Padilla <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:10:09 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.gpe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Florian Boor wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Javier Reyna Padilla wrote:
>> Well I my syncing between my lap and hx4700 is really a pain, so at the
>> end I sync contacts with opensync+gpesyncd and address and task with
>> multysinc+nsqld. Yes, it is horrible..
> 
> i see... did you try gpesyncd and OpenSync?
> 
Yes, I did try opensync and gpesyncd and it just sync contacts and no more

>> Well the point is whe I was syncing the Calendar I have noticed that an
>> event at 1:00pm in evoluton was showing 5:00 pm at gpe-calendar, I
>> thought it was because of the time zone, I copied my zonefile from my
>> laptop to the ipag and link it to /etc/localtime,.. so now I have the
>> correct time in both my lap and ipaq.
>>
>> I sync the same event at 1:00 pm and the calendar shows it at 9:00 am.
>> The settings date/time tool Always shotws UTC/WET/GMT, My zone is
>> Mexico_City, GMT-6 normally and now is CDT GMT-5 because of Daylight
>> saving time.
>>
>> The clock in familiar is fine  it shows CDT time, but the time in GPE is
>> not right.
> 
> This sounds like a problem with the import or the export of the event data. At
> some point UTC and local time seems to be mixed up. I would recommend to use
> gpesyncd because it uses mimedir files following quite strict specifications.
> 
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Florian
>