Re: [Opensync-users] Evolution/opensync and timezones

[Conrad W. <con...@we...>]

On Saturday, 3. June 2006 00:09, Armin Bauer wrote:
> Conrad Wolf wrote:
> > Hi Norm,
> >
> > I had the same problem with evolution. I didn't want to turn off
> > timezones in evo completely, because then evolution would always show a
> > wrong time (I use UTC on my system). For me it helped to select timezone
> > "none" in the appointment dialog whenever I create a new calendar entry.
> > This is not really nice, but it seems to work for the time being.
>
> I know that the timezone problem is a real issue. The problem is that
> its not easy to fix in opensync internally (but we are working on it)
>
> > One other thing with evolution is that whenever I have to do a slow sync
> > (e.g. after using a timezone) all my calendar entries are duplicated in
> > evolution as well as on the phone (Nokia 6630). The slow sync work fine
> > for my contacts though. Any ideas where this comes from?
>
> when a slow-sync is performed, opensync will drop the existing mappings
> between objects and try to remap them.
>
> If the same object (like an event) is stored very differently on the
> phone (opposed to evolution) or if the phones supports less fields,
> opensync might not be able to reestablish the mappings correctly. the
> result is that all items are duplicated.
>
> Armin


I think I found the problem: when the sync failed because of the timezone 
setting I used in the evolution entries, I changes the timezone of these 
entries to none. It seems that evolution has not just changed the timezone of 
these entries but rather created a copy of em with the changed timezone. The 
enties with the bad timezone settings were not visible in evolution, but I 
could see em with a text editor in the calendar.ics-file. After deleting 
these double entries, the dublicates went away. Hope it stays this way. 
Strange, isn't it?

Conrad.


>
> > Conrad.
> >
> > Am Montag, den 29.05.2006, 15:28 -0400 schrieb Norm Dressler:
> >> I cannot sync my Nokia 6620 with evolution because of timezone issues.
> >> The opensync engine doesn't seem to convert it into something nice
> >> that Syncml likes and those records subsequently get rejected and the
> >> sync fails.
> >>
> >> A possible way around this might be to turn off timezones all together
> >> in Evolution.  Is this possible?
> >>
> >> Ultimately, I want a PIM that works -- should I consider moving to
> >> something else on Linux that is known to work?
> >>
> >> Any info would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Norm
> >
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