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[Joel Addison <758733@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The .ics files created by the loco-directory do not seem to contain any
timezone data. When importing such a file into Thunderbird (and other
systems as well, as far as I know), the current ics file works fine if
the events are all in the user's local timezone, but does not work
properly for meetings that are in UTC time.

An example of this is importing a .ics file into Thunderbird. The
meetings are shown in the calendar at the time they are entered on
loco.ubuntu.com, but this time is not adjusted to turn the UTC time into
the user's local time. A meeting for Ubuntu-AU is entered on the website
as starting at 10:00am UTC, which is 8:00pm AEST. The meeting comes up
in Thunderbird at 10am, even though Thunderbird is set up to use AEST.
This is quite annoying, as I would like to subscribe to the calendar in
Thunderbird and have it show the events in my timezone at the correct
time.

To fix this problem, the character 'Z' can be added at the end of all
dates and times that are in UTC when the .ics file is created. This
allows the program (Thunderbird in this case) to know the time is in UTC
and not the user's local timezone. Thunderbird will then adjust the
event times to be in the user's local time zone when showing them on the
calendar, instead of just showing them at the time they are scheduled.

I think this would also help out with Bug 711754
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/loco-directory/+bug/711754), as people could
subscribe to the calendar in a program to get the events in their own
time zone.

** Affects: loco-directory
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: ics meetings timezone

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/758733

Title:
  ics file of Loco Calendar does not contain timezone data

Status in LoCo Directory:
  New

Bug description:
  The .ics files created by the loco-directory do not seem to contain
  any timezone data. When importing such a file into Thunderbird (and
  other systems as well, as far as I know), the current ics file works
  fine if the events are all in the user's local timezone, but does not
  work properly for meetings that are in UTC time.

  An example of this is importing a .ics file into Thunderbird. The
  meetings are shown in the calendar at the time they are entered on
  loco.ubuntu.com, but this time is not adjusted to turn the UTC time
  into the user's local time. A meeting for Ubuntu-AU is entered on the
  website as starting at 10:00am UTC, which is 8:00pm AEST. The meeting
  comes up in Thunderbird at 10am, even though Thunderbird is set up to
  use AEST. This is quite annoying, as I would like to subscribe to the
  calendar in Thunderbird and have it show the events in my timezone at
  the correct time.

  To fix this problem, the character 'Z' can be added at the end of all
  dates and times that are in UTC when the .ics file is created. This
  allows the program (Thunderbird in this case) to know the time is in
  UTC and not the user's local timezone. Thunderbird will then adjust
  the event times to be in the user's local time zone when showing them
  on the calendar, instead of just showing them at the time they are
  scheduled.

  I think this would also help out with Bug 711754
  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/loco-directory/+bug/711754), as people
  could subscribe to the calendar in a program to get the events in
  their own time zone.