On 4 Mar 2011, Nick Dokos wrote: > David Ellis <ddellis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After I sent this email, I found ical2org.el. I saved a month of my >> calendar from Outlook to an iCalendar file. Then, I used >> ical2org/convert-file to convert it to an org file. All of the times >> were off by 6 hours. Since I live in the Central time zone in the US >> that is GMT-6, I wondered if this was the issue. When I used >> icalendar-import-file to convert the iCalendar file to a diary file, >> the times were okay. > > Where did you get ical2org.el? Does it use icalendar.el as distributed > with emacs? IME, the latter has a lot of problems with timezones (based > on a very cursory examination - I mean to go back to that but haven't had > the time), so if the former uses it, I wouldn't be surprised to see > timezone problems cropping up.
Yes it's based on Emacs' icalendar.org; I'll look into the issue, but currently short on time - so you might be better of with the Awk solution right now. In case anybody wants to hack on it himself/herself Repository is on Github[1]. It was on the list a few weeks before [2]. Michael Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/cofi/ical2org [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/35555