[Tikiwiki-devel] Calendar comments & suggestions from Don Hughes #1

[Marc L. <ma...@ma...>]

Hi!

I am trying to get a contract which involves an event calendar. Tiki 
calendar needs to be a bit better if I am to get the contract. Main 
problem I see right now is the time zone and DST weirdness.

I would like to identify problems clearly so I know how much work is 
involved.

Don Hughes provided two very detailed accounts of suggested improvments 
with the calendar. Can you confirm these issues?

Thanks!

M ;-)





>On 26 Mar 2006 at 18:26, Marc Laporte wrote:
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>>> Hi Don!
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>>>> >The displayed times are adjusted internally for daylight savings, but
>>>> >are not corrected when they are displayed.  If I enter an item for
>>>> >7:30 on a date in April, It will display as happening at 6:30 if I
>>>> >display the calendar in March. 
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>>> Thank you very much for pointing this out. It was driving me crazy. I
>>> couldn't understand why some hours were OK and some, not.
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>>> Can you fix? Do you have CVS access?
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>I investigated after entering an item half a dozen times and it kept 
>coming up an hour different.  Changing the tiki code was a little 
>beyond me, and I ended up writing a separate program that accesses the 
>SQL database directly and also adds the location information and prints 
>a weekly calendar.  All of my users are local, and I did not have to 
>worry about multiple timezones, or leap this and leap that which 
>simplified it greatly.
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>Another issue was that the low order of the times that are saved in the 
>database are not cleared out, but default to the current values when 
>the item is saved. Meeting times can only be given in one minute 
>increments (15 minutes in practice), but the seconds are not cleared.  
>Two items scheduled for the same time, will not necessarlily have the 
>same epoc time stored in the database.  Messed me up when testing for 
>conflicts.    
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>..don
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