topic Re: icalendar and timezone in Alfresco Archive

icalendar and timezone

darthvader — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:22:46 GMT

Hi,I've successfully managed to show up the Share's calendar in my pim software (korganizer) using the "ical feed" link. But the start and end date are shifted by one hour. I think this is a time zone issue, since I'm located in Germany (aka GMT+1).The icalendar feed produced by Share looks like thi

Re: icalendar and timezone

rays — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:00:33 GMT

Similar issue but our times are offset by 2 hours, even though we are in the same time zone as you, in principle. Our time zone iS Europe/Zurich.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Alfresco Software//Calendar 1.0//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:97ba4a7c-cd21-46b6-be24-3bba8ea5714a
DTSTART:20090710T090000Z
DTEND:20090710T170000Z
SUMMARY:Registration Task Force
DTSTAMP:20090708T093537Z
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\,nnThis is just a note
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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I've subscribed from iCal, Zimbra, Thunderbird and all are displaying the event as 11:00 to 19:00 instead of 09:00 to 17:00

Any help with finding the fix would be most welcome as it prevents us from rolling out Share with calendar for now.

Thanks

Ray

Re: icalendar and timezone

mikeh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:05:08 GMT

Which version are you seeing this on? I seem to recall this being fixed sometime in the v3.2 timline…

Thanks,
Mike

Re: icalendar and timezone

darthvader — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:16:35 GMT

It's on 3.0 - didn't yet upgrade to 3.2.

Regards,
Stefan

Re: icalendar and timezone

rays — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:42:03 GMT

Which version are you seeing this on? I seem to recall this being fixed sometime in the v3.2 timline…

Thanks,
Mike

Thank you for the very quick response.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that we are working on the newly released Alfresco Community 3.2 - v3.2.0 (2039) with user.timezone = Europe/Zurich

Ray

Re: icalendar and timezone

darthvader — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:56:41 GMT

So it's also in 3.2?

Regards,
Stefan

Re: icalendar and timezone

rays — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:59:44 GMT

Exactly.

Re: icalendar and timezone

mikeh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:18:38 GMT

In that case, please could you raise the bug with a reproducible test case (client, server locale, etc.) in JIRA.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: icalendar and timezone

rays — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:42:51 GMT

Done. ALFCOM-3191