[LCA2015-Chat] Funny stuff with presentation schedule iCal

Kye Russell me at kye.id.au
Sat Jan 10 16:23:34 EST 2015


In my experience Google Calendar (and its Web UI) fixes a lot of weird timezone issues. YMMV.

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> On 10 Jan 2015, at 5:18 pm, Samantha J Desmond <seven at me.com> wrote:
> 
> So in my experience Calendars are really picky about time zones. 
> 
> The Calendar is (guessing) in NZ time and currently you’re in AU time (again guessing) so if something is on at 0800 NZ time it’ll show up as 0600 in your calendar (it does for me in Sydney anyway), because thats when it happens in Sydney time. It might change when you get to NZ. So in fact, as annoying as it is, the calendar is actually correct. 
> 
> Hope that makes sense!
> 
> SJD
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:52:07 +1300
> From: Nick <zaffle at gmail.com>
> To: Delegate Chat list for LCA2015 <chat at lists.lca2015.linux.org.au>
> Subject: Re: [LCA2015-Chat] Funny stuff with presentation schedule
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> Almost definitely Timezone sadness. There are a number of outstanding bugs
> with iDevices, timezones and multiple calendars.
> 
> That said, my reasoning is based on my experiences with iDevices and
> timezones, I haven't checked the lca calendar
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Saturday, 10 January 2015, Andrew McDonnell <andrew at andrewmcdonnell.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> my tutorial is scheduled on the Thursday @ 1320 but when I imported the
>> iCal into Google calendar it shows on Friday @ 1150
>> 
>> Most of the talks seem to be appearing in the wrong places, with some
>> miniconferences on Wednesday and some moving to Saturday!
>> 
>> Could this be an issue with UTC or the fact I am not yet in New Zealand,
>> or something else?
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Andrew
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