Re: [eclipse-dev] Eclipse calendar

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just as a point of interest, for a while there the EclipseCon icals actually did not have any timezone information in them so everything was messed > up.  About a week before the conference it got straightened out.

I imported them on day one of the conference...

> That's not so say that Google calendar does TZs correctly, just letting you know about the specific EC case.

Gotcha - I was googling (the irony) for the issue and it seems alot of users have the same problem of making 
Google calendar handle timezones. 

/max

> Jeff
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:eclipse-dev-
>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Max Rydahl Andersen
>> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:02 AM
>> To: General development mailing list of the Eclipse project.
>> Subject: Re: [eclipse-dev] Eclipse calendar
>>
>> Maybe i should elaborate ;)
>>
>> e.g. I tried to use the EclipseCon ical in google calendar, but because
>> my calendar timezone is CET (UTC+1) it showed all times to be 8 hours
>> earlier than they started even though I told it to view the times in
>> EST.
>>
>> Same thing happens when we have tried to arrange calls over google
>> calendar - when you "click copy to my calendar" google messes up the
>> timezone calculation.
>>
>> Hence i was wondering if you know the magic trick to get google
>> calendar to do this right since I would expect all the non-US
>> contributors to be
>> getting late to the various conf calls and releases in these calendars.
>>
>> /max
>>
>> > Mik,
>> >
>> > Any tips on how to make Google Calendar understand multiple
>> timezones...thats always been my problem with google calendar - it seem
>> to mix up those things.
>> >
>> > /max
>> >
>> >> Mylyn has been using Google Calendar for a year and it works well
>> for coordinating calls and events and it has been working well.  I
>> sometimes wonder if it’s weird to be tying in an Eclipse project’s
>> scheduling with a vendor-specific calendar and whether there is a more
>> generic iCalendar-based solution that would work.  But that would
>> require Eclipse.org infrastructure.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> If using Google Calendar does become more common, I think it would
>> be good to standardize on a naming convention to make things easier for
>> those using multiple calendars.  For example, we now have calendars
>> named “Eclipse Communication Framework” and “Mylyn” and it could be
>> easier to pick out the Eclipse ones if we went with something like
>> “Eclipse - <project short name>”, e.g.:
>> >>
>> >> ·         Eclipse - BIRT
>> >>
>> >> ·         Eclipse - ECF
>> >>
>> >> ·         Eclipse - Mylyn
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Mik
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> From: eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:eclipse-dev-
>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tonny Madsen
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:26 AM
>> >> To: General development mailing list of the Eclipse project.
>> >> Subject: Re: [eclipse-dev] Eclipse calendar
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Given the number of projects in the Eclipse Ecosystem, I would hope
>> for a compromise: One for each major area. Which could then be
>> something like SDK, EMF, BIRT, Mylyn, etc. And one for all conferences
>> with relevant Eclipse content...
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Tonny
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is quite a good idea IMHO.  There are a variety of conf calls
>> and other
>> >> meetings that we have around various Eclipse subprojects.  It might
>> be
>> >> useful to have one calendar that captures them all.  That way people
>> can see
>> >> at a glance what is going on etc.
>> >>
>> >> Would it be better to have one per subproject or just one for all of
>> the
>> >> Eclipse project?
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> Jeff
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: ecf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ecf-dev-
>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> >> Behalf Of Scott Lewis
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:55 PM
>> >> To: Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) developer mailing list.
>> >> Subject: Re: [ecf-dev] Shared ECF calendar
>> >>
>> >> Hi Markus,
>> >>
>> >> Seems like a good idea to me.  I created a shared calendar (Eclipse
>> >> Communication Framework).
>> >>
>> >> You/everyone should be able to get to it now by clicking here:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=q0gpojsaatmup0uilkklpe409c%40g
>> roup.
>> >> calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
>> >>
>> >> I'm putting some links on the wiki now.
>> >>
>> >> Scott
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Markus Alexander Kuppe wrote:
>> >>> Hi all,
>> >>>
>> >>> it slipped somehow from today's agenda but I wonder if it would be
>> >>> useful to have a shared (iCal/XML) calendar especially for ECF much
>> >>> like Releng, Ganymede etc. have. Makes it all the more easier to
>> keep
>> >>> track of our important dates like con calls, API freezes,
>> milestones
>> >>> and such. If possible all ECF committers would have write access to
>> it
>> >>> (e.g. Google calendars has such a feature).
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers
>> >>> Markus
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