Re: [Orgmode] Google calendar to org mode script and a feature request for agenda

[Torsten Wagner]

Just by reading and without the possibility to test it. Why you multiply the 
hour with 36 instead of 3600 to get seconds?

Grettings
 Torsten 

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> wrote:

>On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:38:45 -0300, Daniel Martins <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Eric,
>> 
>> Your awk seems to get timed appts in GMT
>> 
>> How can I adapt it to GMT-3
>> 
>> Daniel
>
>Okay!  I think I've got this working for any time zone (as well as
>adding some more functionality -- read the prologue in the script for
>info).  
>
>Attached is the awk script.  I use this from within a shell script (on
>Linux) that essentially does this:
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>ICS=basic.ics
>ORG=googlecalendar.org
>AWK=ical2org.awk
>
># get the Google calendar
>wget  http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/[...]/basic.ics
>
># convert the ical entries to org format, adjusting for the
># time zone information
>
># this next command yields hours from UTC, + or -, times 100
># Note: this does not cater for those people living in time zones
># that are not aligned with discrete hours (e.g. Newfoundland)...
>timezone=$(date +%z | sed 's/^\([+-]\)0/\1/')
>
># convert this to seconds for use in the awk script
>seconds=$(($timezone*36))
>
># and now process the ics file with appropriate time zone
>awk -f $AWK --assign SECONDS=$seconds < $ICS > $ORG
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>Please test this all out and let me know if it works.  If the date and
>sed commands work, you should be adjusting the times by -3*3600=-10800
>seconds.  This seems to be working for me with BST (aka GMT+1).
>
>eric
>
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