Re: ICalendar - Mozilla - Outlook compatibility

Hi Manny.

    Unfortunately support of VCalendar in Mozilla Calendar and Outlook=20
is even more deficient. Those clients ignore repetitions when importing=20
VCalendar, so it is only arppropiate for single events :s. In addtion, I=20
am not completely sure, but I think ICalendar substitutes progressively=20
for VCalendar.

Thank you, anyway.

By the way, my congratulations to Ximian Evolution developers on its=20
ICalendar support. It is the only software I know really RFC compilant.

Germ=E1n

Manny Ormaza wrote:

>Hi there German,
>
>You write great English, I would have never known you were not American.
>
>
>I wanted to ask why aren't you doing it in the vCalendar format? From
>what I understand vCal is more of a standard. Here's a link
>http://home.att.net/~codeLibrary/HTML/vcs.htm.
>
>Manny.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Germ=E1n M. River=
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>Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:57 AM
>To: Lista IMC-VCalendar
>Subject: ICalendar - Mozilla - Outlook compatibility
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>
>
>Hi.
>
>    An application I'm developing writes ICalendars for repeating=20
>events. It would be desirable (almost necessary) that those ICalendars=20
>could be imported in Outlook 2002 and Mozilla Calendar. Outlook 2002=20
>supports the property VTIMEZONE -with some restrictions- but Mozilla=20
>ignores it and interprets DTSTART (and DTEND) as local time. Specifying=20
>DTSTART (and DTEND) in UTC time format makes Mozilla at least to=20
>calculate the correct local time, but without considering time zone=20
>shifts (from DST to Standard Time or vice versa).
>
>    So it is impossible to have an ICalendar with a repeating event with
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>dates on both sides of a time zone shift correctly imported in Mozilla=20
>Calendar but I would like that, at least, offset to UTC was considered=20
>but specifying also the VTIMEZONE property to let ICalendar be correctly
>
>imported in Outlook.
>
>Is this possible?
>
>Please, excuse me for my poor English.
>
>Regards,
>
>Germ=E1n
>
> =20
>