[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: Time zone problems after Daylight Savings Time

[Brian Hall]

At 3:48 PM -0500 1/2/06, David Turley wrote:
>On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:30 PM, E-Commerce wrote:
>
>> I don't suppose this is something that could be "faked" in some
>> way, is it? Being completely ignorant here, why can't Missing Sync
>> create a repeating all-day event when it sees one of these "from
>> date x to date y" events in iCal, and vice versa?

We tried that and it didn't work well. It caused all the iCal events to
change from banner events to repeating single day events. Which would then
propagate everywhere else (bad!), not to mention look bad in iCal.

>I think it would a "bad thing" if Missing Sync re-wrote events.
>Remember, M/S doesn't deal with iCal directly, it deals with Sync
>Services. In theory there can be any number of applications that sync
>with data from Sync Services, and if they all rewrote the data as
>they saw fit, we'd have a real mess. :-/

What Sync Services really needs is to allow developers to provide their own
equivalency function. Without it we can't decide that "Start 11/1, end
11/3" in iCal is the same as "start 11/1, repeat until 11/3" on the
handheld. We are lobbying Apple to add that functionality to sync services.

Brian


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