[ale] VCalendar problem

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Tue Sep 20 22:31:08 EDT 2005


On Tuesday 20 September 2005 09:55 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > When somebody uses outlook to plan a meeting, I get an invitation which I
> > read in KMail.  The time I get is always "an hour earlier".  The message
> > even includes a description, which says the actual time correctly.
> >
> > So, for example, even though the meeting is at 10:30, the invitation says
> > 9:30.  Looking at the message source, the DTSTART time is ...T143000Z
> > (seems like an extra 0, but that's what it has).  Since we're in DST, I
> > think we're four hours off of Zulu (right?).
> >
> > So, what is not set correctly where?
>
> Maybe they just don't want you to be late? :)
>
> I really have not clue, although I know that a dual boot (windows/linux)
> will screw up your Linux time if you set the bios to UTC and boot from
> windows and back to linux.  Think that might have something to do with it?

Technically, it's a dual boot system.  But I don't think I've booted Windows 
since at least January.  My Timezone and clock seem correct to me.



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