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[Opensync-users] Evolution/opensync and timezones

[Norm D. <no...@dr...>]

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

Conrad Wolf wrote:
> Hi Norm,
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> 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 timezon=
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> "none" in the appointment dialog whenever I create a new calendar entry=
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> 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)

>=20
> One other thing with evolution is that whenever I have to do a slow syn=
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> (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

>=20
> Conrad.
>=20
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> 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? =20
>>
>> Ultimately, I want a PIM that works -- should I consider moving to
>> something else on Linux that is known to work? =20
>>
>> Any info would be appreciated.
>>
>> Norm
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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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