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Hello all, I am currently evaluating the vpim libraries and like them very much. However there''s one thing I can''t get done: How can I set the TZID parameter for DTSTART/END dates so my encoded ICS file looks something like this: BEGIN:VEVENT ... DTSTART;TZID=Eastern Time:20071201T080000 DTEND;TZID=Eastern Time:20071207T110000 ... END:VEVENT I managed to create the VTIMEZONE object, but that only sets up the time-zone...

...that has non utc dstarts and dends will it convert those times to UTC or otherwise allow me to do that? When I tried to parse an iCalendar input file started off with something like this: BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:Microsoft CDO for Microsoft Exchange VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:(GMT-05.00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) X-MICROSOFT-CDO-TZID:10 BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=MO;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=...

...by parser for icalendar which properly handles timezones on the datetimes in the icalendar RFC. As I understand it there are actually three types of times. 1) UTC times with a string form of yyyymmddThhmmssZ note the trailing Z indicates zulu time aka utc. 2) Local times with a string form of TZID=ttttttt:yyyymmddThhmmss where ttttt is a variable length timezone id ''defined'' in a timezone component in the containing calendar. A little experimentation with both Google calendar, and iCal.app for the Mac indicates that they at least seem to use timezone ids which are...

...d rake tasks to run specs with either the tzinfo gem or activesupport (<=2.2) * Default rake task now runs both of these ### 0.0.5 * Fixed a bug in occurrence enumeration reported by paulsm on github ### 0.0.4 * Fixed a bug in imported timezones reported by paulsm on github ### 0.0.3 * Added tzid method to Ruby Time and DateTime instances, and to ActiveRecord::TimeWithZone if it is defined this method is used to determine the desired timezone when an instance of one of these classes is given as the value of a datetime property. If the tzid is nil then the default tzid is used, if it is set...

...;-0600" timezone_name "CST" dtstart "19701101T020000" add_recurrence_rule "YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU" end end I added that exact bit of code to my program, but all I get in my ICS file is this... BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago END:VTIMEZONE None of the daylight or standard information is added in my ICS file. Am I missing something? Thanks, Matt

We''re using Vpim to parse iCal and vCard files, and so far it''s been great. However, when we were parsing some iCal files we noticed that all the endlines in the description section were disappearing. I start peering through the source code and find (in the Field#to_text method that is being called): # The value as text. Text can have escaped newlines, commas, and escape #