[PHPiCalendar-DEV] Offer for compensation for squashing a timezone bug

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Anyone able to help him?  I don't know what he has in mind for  
compensation, and don't know anything about him other than that he  
has an urgent need for the fix.
=====================================
Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054

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> From: "Vito Laurenza" <vla...@ad...>
> Date: November 30, 2006 10:36:00 AM CST
> To: jimhu <ji...@ta...>
> Subject: RE: PHPical
>
> Sure thing.
>
> :::: Vito Laurenza
> ::   Systems Administrator
> ::   Advance Internet
> ::   201.793.1807
> ::   vla...@ad...
>
>
> From: Jim Hu [mailto:ji...@ta...]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:34 AM
> To: Vito Laurenza
> Subject: Re: PHPical
>
> I don't have a consulting company, and since the reason I don't  
> have time is a $600K federal grant, I doubt you'd want to pay that  
> much!  Would you like this offer relayed to the developer list?
>
>
> JH
> =====================================
> Jim Hu
> Associate Professor
> Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
> 2128 TAMU
> Texas A&M Univ.
> College Station, TX 77843-2128
> 979-862-4054
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Vito Laurenza wrote:
>
>> If you have a consulting company or the likes, we can offer you  
>> compensation for your time.  Like I said earlier, we needed fixed  
>> this yesterday.
>>
>> :::: Vito Laurenza
>> ::   Systems Administrator
>> ::   Advance Internet
>> ::   201.793.1807
>> ::   vla...@ad...
>>
>>
>> From: Jim Hu [mailto:ji...@ta...]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:23 AM
>> To: Vito Laurenza
>> Subject: Re: PHPical
>>
>> Haven't had time yet.
>>
>> =====================================
>> Jim Hu
>> Associate Professor
>> Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
>> 2128 TAMU
>> Texas A&M Univ.
>> College Station, TX 77843-2128
>> 979-862-4054
>>
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Vito Laurenza wrote:
>>
>>> Any luck?
>>>
>>> I also found an issue in day.php for which I've posted a patch on  
>>> your forums.
>>>
>>> :::: Vito Laurenza
>>> ::   Systems Administrator
>>> ::   Advance Internet
>>> ::   201.793.1807
>>> ::   vla...@ad...
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Jim Hu [mailto:ji...@ta...]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:17 AM
>>> To: Vito Laurenza
>>> Subject: Re: PHPical
>>>
>>> Ok, that's what I was afraid of.  I'll have to dig into  
>>> ical_parser.php.
>>>
>>>
>>> =====================================
>>> Jim Hu
>>> Associate Professor
>>> Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
>>> 2128 TAMU
>>> Texas A&M Univ.
>>> College Station, TX 77843-2128
>>> 979-862-4054
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 7:37 AM, Vito Laurenza wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>>
>>>> I did take a look at parse_tz() and I wrote a quick test based  
>>>> on it:
>>>>
>>>> <?php
>>>> $data='"(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"';
>>>>         $fields = explode("/",$data);
>>>>         $tz = array_pop($fields);
>>>>         $tmp = array_pop($fields);
>>>>         if (isset($tmp) && $tmp != "") $tz = "$tmp/$tz";
>>>> print_r($data);
>>>> echo "<BR>\n";
>>>> print_r($fields);
>>>> echo "<BR>\n";
>>>> print_r($tmp);
>>>> echo "<BR>\n";
>>>> print_r($tz);
>>>> ?>
>>>>
>>>> Since there are no '/' in $data, $tz ends up with the same value  
>>>> as $data.
>>>>
>>>> It's not so much that parse_tz() doesn't work, but that when I  
>>>> set $timezone in config.inc.php, any embedded TZID in a VEVENT  
>>>> seems to be ignored.  If I set $timezone to null, then the  
>>>> embedded TZID is parsed properly.  I wish I could show you our  
>>>> calendar for an example, but it's not accessible from outsite  
>>>> our network.
>>>>
>>>> :::: Vito Laurenza
>>>> ::   Systems Administrator
>>>> ::   Advance Internet
>>>> ::   201.793.1807
>>>> ::   vla...@ad...
>>>> ________________________________
>>>>
>>>> From: Jim Hu [mailto:ji...@ta...]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:30 AM
>>>> To: Vito Laurenza
>>>> Cc: chad
>>>> Subject: Re: PHPical
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Vito,
>>>>
>>>> I'll try to take a look at your sample events on the bbs when I  
>>>> get time (I'm at a conference for a code project that actually  
>>>> pays the bills, so that gets priority, I'm afraid).  The change  
>>>> in 2.23 that was supposed to fix this is in date_functions.php  
>>>> and it's the addition of a function called parse_tz:
>>>>
>>>> function parse_tz($data){
>>>> $fields = explode("/",$data);
>>>> $tz = array_pop($fields);
>>>> $tmp = array_pop($fields);
>>>> if (isset($tmp) && $tmp != "") $tz = "$tmp/$tz";
>>>> return $tz;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> If things are still not working for you, it would be useful for  
>>>> me if you could put some diagnostics in this code block to  
>>>> determine whether it's being called, and what it thinks tz is  
>>>> before it returns.
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> =====================================
>>>>
>>>> Jim Hu
>>>>
>>>> Associate Professor
>>>>
>>>> Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
>>>>
>>>> 2128 TAMU
>>>>
>>>> Texas A&M Univ.
>>>>
>>>> College Station, TX 77843-2128
>>>>
>>>> 979-862-4054
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Vito Laurenza wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the response Chad.
>>>>
>>>> So is the correct thing to set my $timezone = '"(GMT-05:00)  
>>>> Eastern Time (US & Canada)"'; and cross my fingers?
>>>>
>>>> :::: Vito Laurenza
>>>> ::   Systems Administrator
>>>> ::   Advance Internet
>>>> ::   201.793.1807
>>>> ::   vla...@ad...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Chad Little [mailto:ch...@ch...]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:17 PM
>>>> To: Vito Laurenza
>>>> Cc: jimhu
>>>> Subject: Re: PHPical
>>>>
>>>> My guess is since your event is in '"(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US &
>>>> Canada)"' but your setting your timezone to 'US/Eastern'. Without a
>>>> match, we go to Zulu time, since the event ends in 'Z'. If that
>>>> doesn't work, I can't think of anything else. We're displaying the
>>>> results as we expect.
>>>>
>>>> -Chad
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Vito Laurenza wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello Chad and Jim,
>>>>
>>>> As you are both aware, there is an issue in phpical where a VEVENT
>>>> which contains recurrence information will not be displayed with
>>>> the correct time in phpical.  We are very interested in getting
>>>> this to work for us and would be happy to offer an incentive to
>>>> expedite a fix for this issue.  We needed this fixed like
>>>> yesterday.  ;)
>>>>
>>>> We are currently running PHP 4.3.9, PHPiCalendar 2.22, on a
>>>> CentOS4.4 (RHEL4 clone) box.  I have also put into place the newest
>>>> versions of functions/date_functions.php and functions/
>>>> ical_parser.php from your 2.23rc1 sourcefource source.
>>>>
>>>> Attached is a sample VEVENT with non-standard TZID.  I have already
>>>> added to functions/timezones.php the lines:
>>>> $tz_array['(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)'] = array
>>>> ('-0500', '-0400');
>>>> $tz_array['"(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"'] = array
>>>> ('-0500', '-0400');
>>>>
>>>> (See my post on your forums for more samples: http://
>>>> phpicalendar.net/forums/showpost.php?p=7992&postcount=4)
>>>>
>>>> Here's what I see.  If I set $timezone=''; in config.inc.php, then
>>>> recurring events look fine, but normal events are at +0000. If I
>>>> set $timezone='US/Eastern'; in config.inc.php, then recurring
>>>> events are wrong and normal events are fine.
>>>>
>>>> If I'm just doing something wrong, then please excuse the
>>>> unnecessary email, but I'd appreciate it if you could let me know
>>>> what it is that I've screwed up.  If not, please let me know how/
>>>> when we can get this working and how we can compensate you for
>>>> professional services.
>>>>
>>>> :::: Vito Laurenza
>>>> ::   Systems Administrator
>>>> ::   Advance Internet
>>>> ::   201.793.1807
>>>> ::   vla...@ad...
>>>> <recurring.txt>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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