Re: [Opensync-users] Finally manages to sync with my Nokia 6280]

[Daniel G. <dg...@su...>]

On Monday 27 November 2006 12:21, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Btw, how do you handle the UTC vs localtime problem?
> The Nokia sends localtime time strings and does not understand the UTC "Z"
> parameter of the time strings sent back?

This is a know issue :(

Most Nokia mobile phones seems to store only local timestamps without any 
timezone information (at least i didn't found any so far...). Most Sony 
Ericsson seems to store only in UTC ... i guess there even more mobile phone 
which mix this totally up and make this difficult to handle.

I have written a quick workaround for this problem. I enhance a bit the time 
api of OpenSync and added some code to the syncml plugin which enhance it 
with another plugin option: <onlyLocaltime>

If you set <onlyLocaltime>1</onlyLocaltime> it should work correctly with your 
Nokia. Let me now if it works for you so i can commit to SVN.

Maybe we have to add this workaround also for IrMC-sync plugin and other which 
handles vcards directly... maybe we can solve this in the devel-branch 
directly...


best regards,
Daniel