[Ofa_boardplus] [EXTERNAL] Re: Calendar difficulties

[Ken Strandberg]

Hmm. We'll I'm going to make it explicit to UTC-7 and set myself a reminder
to change it in the fall. Let me know if that fixes it. I assume no one
else is seeing this artifact.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020, 8:50 PM Regier, Phillip A <paregie at sandia.gov> wrote:

> Sorry, but for me this seems to overshoot by an hour.  I want to assume
> that this is because Outlook makes no adjustment for daylight time, and
> PST->MDT is a two hour difference; however, I get the same result
> subscribing from Google Calendar.  This is the same result I had when I
> manually changed Etc/GMT+8 to America/Los_Angeles using a text editor.  I
> don’t suppose “My Calendar” has an option for embedding DST information?
> Most of my limited reading on the subject seems to suggest that the
> iCalendar format requires explicit DST configuration, though I can’t
> imagine how this could be considered sensible behavior.
>
>
>
> *From:* Ken Strandberg <ken at catlowcommunications.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 8, 2020 9:01 PM
> *To:* Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
> *Cc:* Regier, Phillip A <paregie at sandia.gov>; Ken Strandberg <
> ken at catlowcommunications.com>; ofa boardplus <
> ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [Ofa_boardplus] Calendar difficulties
>
>
>
> The Time Zone setting for the web site was UTC-8. I set it to America/LA.
> Please check and see if you're still having the same issue and let me know.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:27 PM Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Yes.  From what I can tell, the ics and google calendar events in the OFA
> calendar are totally missing the parent timezone, so when you open the
> link, it always assumes the times are in your local timezone.  Since you
> are Mountain time, it's an hour off.  For me, if I open the links from the
> calendar, its off by three hours.  The actual meeting invites that go out
> to the ofa_boardplus mailing list have the appropriate timezone info, so
> those invites import into my calendar properly.  It just seems to be
> getting lost in the import to the calendar on the website.  Ken, can you
> confirm/fix if this is the case?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> > Apologies for what feels like a silly question, but I’ve been
> experiencing
> > some difficulties with the call schedule for several months now so I
> can’t
> > help but suspect that some part of the problem is real.
> >
> >
> >
> > When I subscribe to the OFA calendar using the web interface’s “.ics”
> link
> > for Outlook (either one), it appears I always get events that are an hour
> > earlier than they actually occur. If my arithmetic is correct, during the
> > summer this could be either because time zone information is being
> processed
> > incorrectly (as I happen to be in the Mountain time zone) or because
> > Daylight Saving Time is being processed incorrectly on one end of the
> > transaction.
> >
> >
> >
> > In May I manually added DST offsets to a downloaded copy, which worked
> well
> > for a time, but then I failed to notice when I reached the end of the
> > imported events and I started missing calls. Since I need to actively
> > subscribe to updates, this means I need a better solution to the time
> offset
> > problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anybody else on the list experience this issue with Outlook and the
> > online calendar in a time zone other than Pacific?
> >
> >
> >
> > Phil Regier
> >
> > SNL Capacity & Visualization Systems Administration
> >
> > paregie at snl.gov
> >
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