Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] ical server issue

Lou Berger <lberger@labn.net> Fri, 11 September 2015 18:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] ical server issue
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On 9/11/2015 1:05 PM, Russ Housley wrote:
> Lou:
>
>> So what's the right way to report an issue with ical.ietf.org?
>>
>> I see an issue with a meeting from yesterday 9/10/15 on
>> https://ical.ietf.org/public.php/IAOC/calendar and it looks like the
>> issues is also there for future meetings.
>>
>> The meeting correctly shows in Thunderbird as occurring at noon ET, but
>> on google calendar it shows at 10am ET.  Interesting, this has not been
>> an issue for other calendars, e.g., finance.
> How can it be a problem with the server that two different clients are displaying different results?  I assume the entries are provided by the server in UTC and that the conversion is done by the client.

Both calendars use the standard and valid TZID property and VTIMEZONE
component to provide times in local TZ.  One note, it looks like some
versions of outlook required the TZ names to be quoted (which isn't the
standard).  Perhaps there's something related happening...

> Russ
>
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