Looks like Tim is a little out of date now <g> 15-Aug-07 Microsoft Joins CalConnect: The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Microsoft as a member of the Consortium
Pulled directly from the CalConnect website. K -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hare, Tim Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 4:04 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Live Virtual Class, Aug 14 - Virtualization Basics (10am NY time) A slight correction - ICS (aka iCalendar or RFC 2445) files have dates in ISO format, but they are NOT required to be in UTC. The standard allows timezone definitions and references to them within the file. Often UTC is used because it makes it easier, but it's not required. They also allow "floating" time, expressly for some cases where you want to load events into your (insert name of device / user agent her) but you don't want to have to change the time zone on it when you travel.. for example, when I go to SHARE I get the events in floating time so I can just load them in the PDA and leave the time alone. Partly because of these, and other issues, there are many interoperability problems with calendars. The Calendar & Scheduling Consortium (www.calconnect.org) exists to work on those issues, and has I believe mades some progress. You might want to check them out. Many vendors are members, as well as universities and open source projects. Regrettably, Microsoft has not joined - although I believe they may have attended one or more interop tests. I do agree that it would be nice to have an iCalendar (RFC2445 not Apple's product) attachment whenever there's event data. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation Tel: +1 (850) 414-4209 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:21 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Live Virtual Class, Aug 14 - Virtualization Basics (10am NY time) > > In future, could people recognise that not everyone understands US > > times, and translate times to GMT (UTC). Probably we can all translate > > GMT to our local times. > > What, you don't have one of those handy dandy timezone changers on your > desktop toolbar? Heck, even Windows has that. I use mine all the time to > figure out what the time is in other parts of the world. Or you could use > the world clock, or.... In John's defense, it is a bit annoying that people in the US tend to assume that the US is the center of the known universe (thank goodness it's not). Since he's in Australia, that 16 hour time difference is Not Fun At All for non-US attendees to US events, particularly for those in Asia. Trying to schedule conference calls with people in Japan and China is a major PITA. A possible solution would be to add a ICS (Internet Calendar Service) meeting notice to the posting (would require some work on the mailing list server to permit .ICS files to pass the attachment filter). Times and dates in ICS notices are in ISOdate format with times in UTC, and Notes (finally!) can generate and understand them properly, as does Outlook/Exchange and the other similar widgets. Then the meeting schedule would appear in the proper local time. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
