icalendar and timezone

[darthvader]

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 this:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Alfresco Software//Calendar 1.0//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:c33df3a6-471e-48e7-bbef-5078578b946d
DTSTART:20090225T170000Z
DTEND:20090225T190000Z
SUMMARY:Testevent
DTSTAMP:20090129T183139Z
DESCRIPTION:
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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According to the ical spec http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445, the tailing "Z" in DTSTART and DTEND indicates UTC. So Alfresco Share obviously operates in UTC.
The system's timezone is set to "Europe/Berlin". Inside the JVM java.util.TimeZone.getDefault() also returns "Europe/Berlin". Seems like Share does not work with timezones.
How can this be changed? Any hints?

Regards,
Stefan

[rays]

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

[mikeh]

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

Thanks,
Mike

[darthvader]

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

Regards,
Stefan

[rays]

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

[darthvader]

So it's also in 3.2?

Regards,
Stefan

[rays]

Exactly.

[mikeh]

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

Thanks,
Mike

[rays]

Done. ALFCOM-3191