Re: Proper Web Calendar [Was: GNOME 2.7/2.8 Proposed Schedule]

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

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> > I'm not sure what you mean by this - you seem to be saying evolution is
> > doing the right thing but you don't want to use it?  Note that the various
> > calendars spit out by iCal for instance are broken because they use an
> > Olsen time zone name (which is also not uniquely specified) and then don't
> > include the time zone information.
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> Every time Luis and I have done full-day items in Evo, they're timezoned,
> which is not what we want for the release calendar. It should show the same
> logical date whatever timezone you're in. That kind of thing might be too
> rare a use case for Evo though.
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Why shouldn't we change this?  IOW key the freeze dates to the last 
timezone before the dateline, or to UTC, or whatever...  having freezes 
that sweep across from east to west doesn't seem to be all that 
important IMO, what does it accomplish?

- Bill

> - Jeff
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