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

[Jo R. <jr...@ne...>]

I can do it.  I'll wrap my head around this problem tonight and  
decide what it's going to take to fix it.

On Nov 30, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Jim Hu wrote:
> 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
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> 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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