[GroupDAV] GroupDAV Connector / Corrupted Times (ZideStore bug?)

Adam Tauno Williams groupdav@opengroupware.org
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:26:44 -0500


On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:20 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 10:11 +1100, matt wrote:
> > Only the server name and port are required in the URL field,  
> > everything else goes into server source now, like so:
> > http://comalies.citadel.org/~matt/funambol/latest/deployment/ 
> > x97.html#source-create
> Excellent;  it is now tossing data back and forth.
> Only now I see corrupted times in the OpenGroupware schedular.  An
> appointment created on the WinCE device and synced looks like:
> Starttime: Tuesday, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z
> End Time: Tuesday, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z

Arghh.  Nevermind;  everything is the schedular is showing up with the
weird time string.

> The appointment does appear on the correct day,  and if I click edit I
> see a start time of 10:30 and an end time of 12:00.  So the duration is
> correct.  Appointment on the device was fo 15:30 - 17:00.

But the time shifting is still valid.  Does the connector send the time
to the server with a timezone or in GMT?  Because it looked like
somewhere along the line 5 hours gets subtracted (and we are in GMT-5).

> Even after I correct the time and save the appointment the time appears
> as the string above ["%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z"].
> Title and location are correct.
> Seems very odd.