[python-events] Calendar -> Twitter gateway
Skip Montanaro
skip.montanaro at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 16:17:35 CET 2014
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:27 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at python.org> wrote:
> Done, so now the direct Google Calendar channel is used and the
> new format looks like this:
>
> New #Python #Event: {{Title}} ({{Starts}} - {{Ends}}) - {{EventUrl}}
> New #Python #User #Group #Event: {{Title}} ({{Starts}} - {{Ends}}) - {{EventUrl}}
I hate to be a curmudgeon, but this suffers from the same problem as
Google Calendar itself, namely that the event times are displayed in
the time zone of the calendar, not the event's local time zone. (I
realize there's nothing IFTTT can really do to improve matters.)
While all this publicity is great, I know in my own management of
another global Google Calendar, the displayed times confuse both event
organizers and the people who might want to attend them. Admittedly,
the audience for my Vintage Cycling Events calendar is a bit less
computer savvy than your typical Python programmer. All the more
reason to correct the display of event times. Does anyone have a
direct contact to someone on the Google Calendar team with whom we
could discuss this? They provide the opportunity to enter the event's
time zone at event creation, but fail to use it for display. It makes
little sense.
Skip
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