[python-events] Calendar -> Twitter gateway
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at python.org
Mon Jan 20 16:37:48 CET 2014
On 20.01.2014 16:17, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 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.)
Indeed, there isn't. It's not even possible to just display
the date without the time.
I've added "GMT" behind the start and end times to at least
provide an indication of why the times may look strange.
I also double checked. I've now set the calendar timezone to
GMT+0 and Ghana (which uses GMT, but no DST) to make sure that the
events shown in the Google interface are always GMT.
On pycon.org, I had explicitly set the timezone to Europe/London.
I'll fix that to ctz=GMT and will do the same for the widgets
on python.org later today.
> 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.
I don't have such contacts, but a feature to automatically display
the events using the browser timezone would indeed be a very
useful thing to have.
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director
Python Software Foundation
http://www.python.org/psf/
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