Re: ICalendar - Mozilla - Outlook compatibility

["Germán M. Rivera" <rivera@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Manny.

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

Thank you, anyway.

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

Germán

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: owner-imc-vcalendar@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-imc-vcalendar@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Germán M. Rivera
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:57 AM
> To: Lista IMC-VCalendar
> Subject: ICalendar - Mozilla - Outlook compatibility
>
>
>
> Hi.
>
>    An application I'm developing writes ICalendars for repeating 
> events. It would be desirable (almost necessary) that those ICalendars 
> could be imported in Outlook 2002 and Mozilla Calendar. Outlook 2002 
> supports the property VTIMEZONE -with some restrictions- but Mozilla 
> ignores it and interprets DTSTART (and DTEND) as local time. Specifying 
> DTSTART (and DTEND) in UTC time format makes Mozilla at least to 
> calculate the correct local time, but without considering time zone 
> shifts (from DST to Standard Time or vice versa).
>
>    So it is impossible to have an ICalendar with a repeating event with
>
> dates on both sides of a time zone shift correctly imported in Mozilla 
> Calendar but I would like that, at least, offset to UTC was considered 
> 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,
>
> Germán
>
>