From: Wolfgang K. <kle...@we...> - 2010-03-20 13:09:23
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I am still trying to make my Palm and my KDE Desktop / Mozilla Lightning work together. I had some success in setting up opensync to sync kde-pim and my Palm, but still I encounter some serious problems, one of which is concerning timezone info: each time I sync, the timezone ID is deleted from the local vcal file. When I enter a new event, there is a timezone info included: BEGIN:VEVENT ... DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20100402T173000Z DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20100402T210000Z END:VEVENT After synchronizing, the same event will look like this: BEGIN:VEVENT ... DTSTART:20100402T173000Z DTEND:20100402T210000Z END:VEVENT The timezone info has been deleted and this event will be shifted one hour. Strangely, this does not happen to every event in calendar: only repeating events are affected when they cross the days when daylight saving time starts or ends. Has any one else noticed this? Is this a know problem? If so: is there a patch available and will this be fixed in the next release? Wolfgang Klein |
From: Chris F. <cd...@fo...> - 2010-03-23 20:28:31
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Hi Wolfgang, I don't know the answer to your specific query, but I do recall that timezone support is weak... if not in the library itself, then sometimes in the plugins. Especially in 0.22. - Chris On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 02:09:15PM +0100, Wolfgang Klein wrote: > I am still trying to make my Palm and my KDE Desktop / Mozilla Lightning > work together. I had some success in setting up opensync to sync kde-pim > and my Palm, but still I encounter some serious problems, one of which > is concerning timezone info: each time I sync, the timezone ID is > deleted from the local vcal file. > > When I enter a new event, there is a timezone info included: > > BEGIN:VEVENT > ... > DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20100402T173000Z > DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20100402T210000Z > END:VEVENT > > > After synchronizing, the same event will look like this: > > BEGIN:VEVENT > ... > DTSTART:20100402T173000Z > DTEND:20100402T210000Z > END:VEVENT > > The timezone info has been deleted and this event will be shifted one > hour. Strangely, this does not happen to every event in calendar: only > repeating events are affected when they cross the days when daylight > saving time starts or ends. > > Has any one else noticed this? Is this a know problem? If so: is there a > patch available and will this be fixed in the next release? > > > Wolfgang Klein > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Opensync-users mailing list > Ope...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensync-users |
From: Wolfgang K. <kle...@we...> - 2010-03-24 07:50:21
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Hello Chris, thanks for your answer. Now I know that there are still some souls around who read this list. It has become very quiet, I was beginning to worry if it was still active. You wrote: > I don't know the answer to your specific query, but I do recall that > timezone support is weak... if not in the library itself, then sometimes > in the plugins. I hope they fix it very fast, because now that KPilot has become abandoned and unsupported, all of us "old-fashioned" Palm users need OpenSync really badly. Right now, I am feeling like back in the stone age again: I have to synchronize my Palm and my Linux desktop by hand, because right now there is *no* synching software that works faultless, without messing up my calendars. I'm sure you can imagine how frustrating this is. And it gets even more frustrating every time Windows users look at you with this kind of pity in their faces... > > Especially in 0.22. > Unfortunately, this is the only version available for my system. I tried to compile version 0.39 but I failed. :-( It seems to me, compiling OpenSync is much more complicated than compiling a Linux kernel. The scripts that should do the trick are very old and they don't work on my system (KUbuntu 9.10). I am not very much into developing software, so I can't really tell why they don't work. I guess it must be some dependencies that don't match, but how do you solve dependencies for a script of that age? If anyone has a working script, that downloads and compiles OpenSync on (K)Ubuntu9.10 or if anyone even has a working package (.deb) for this system, I would very much appreciate a copy of it. Wolfgang Klein |
From: Chris F. <cd...@fo...> - 2010-03-24 11:20:21
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:50:11AM +0100, Wolfgang Klein wrote: > I hope they fix it very fast, because now that KPilot has become > abandoned and unsupported, all of us "old-fashioned" Palm users need > OpenSync really badly. Right now, I am feeling like back in the stone > age again: I have to synchronize my Palm and my Linux desktop by hand, > because right now there is *no* synching software that works faultless, > without messing up my calendars. It's good that 0.22 users post here, so that people realize that 0.22 is still needed. But to be honest, there is little possibility that timezone support will be improved in 0.22. > Unfortunately, this is the only version available for my system. I tried > to compile version 0.39 but I failed. :-( I believe that 0.39 is in the Debian unstable tree. So you could try grabbing the source packages, and compiling them to .debs yourself. I'm not sure if that would be easier than compiling from tarball or not. - Chris |