Icalendar import - time zones and multiple categories

Patrik · Guest

Hi,

I am importing an icalendar file generated by XTide. It contains tide data as well as moon and sun phases.

All the DTSTART times are for the geographic location of the hotel and dive operation of the web site that the calendar will end up on.

XTide saves icalendars with the time stamps normalized to Greenwich/Zulu though. That is, they have a Z at the end, and on my case, that means that the times are 9 hours offset from the actual local time.

When I import this to Thyme, into a calendar that thas a time zone setting of +9, I always get the Greenwich times, rather than the Greenwich + 9 that I want. I've tride this with the TZ flag off an on, with automatic as well as forced and none time zone on the import, all with the same result.

Is there a way to do this in Thyme, or do in need to convert the DTSTART times before import (if so, anyone has a good script for this? Have searched but not found any)?

Also - I would like to put different events in the imported icalendar into different categories - like Sunrise, Sunset, High Tide, Low TIde, Moonrise, etc. The import only allows me to import into a specic category or "none". I can easily add CATEGORIES: tags into the icalendar file (like the ones that you get if you export to iCalendar from Thyme), but can't find a way for icalendar imports to honor them.

Thanks,

Patrik Nilsson

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Hi Patrik,

You should not need to touch DTSART or any other values in the ics file for the import to correctly detect timezone. Could you please e-mail me (ian at extr..) the iCalendar file.

Regarding categories, the events in the iCalendar file should have a CATEGORIES tag if you want them to go into the correct categories. These categories must also exist in the target calendar in Thyme. So, create Sunrise, Sunset, etc.. in the calendar, then mark them as such in the file, and Thyme should put them in the correct categories.

Thank you

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Also ... when using the forced option, force it to GMT +0, not your local time. If you force it to your local time zone, Thyme thinks that all the times in the file are local for you. If you force it to GMT +0, it should work correctly since all the time in the file are set to this. I'd still be interested to see the actual file.