[kdepim-users] Timezone gets mangled when going from KOrganizer 3.x to 4.x - workaround

[George Bourozikas]

I remember seeing a thread regarding timezone mangling when moving from KDE 
3.x to 4.x.  At the time David Jarvie wrote:

On Monday 08 September 2008 10:54:44 David Jarvie wrote:

> The reason is that in KDE 3 time zones weren't handled properly and all
> times were stored as UTC, the necessary conversion to the user's time zone 
> being done in the user interface. In KDE 4, time zones are stored correctly 
> in the calendar, and are displayed just as they are stored. Presumably there 
> isn't any conversion done when a KDE 3 calendar is read by the KDE 4 
> KOrganizer, so times now show as UTC. 

For the record, I was just bitten by the same issue and my workaround was to 
delete the std.ics file and have all my KOrganizer data restored with a KPilot 
sync from my Treo 650.  I don't know what will happen if I ever have to open 
saved calendar information from archived files, but I guess I will cross this 
bridge when I come to it.

In the meantime, out of curiosity, what would writing a small utility to 
correct the timezone information in std.ics entail?

Thanks,
--george

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