Re: Improving Emacs' iCalendar support

[Ihor Radchenko]

Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:

> It would be great to have these features supported better. In think
> some limitations in for example org-mode come also into play here as
> last time I looked it can't deal with timezones.

Org can deal with timezones in a limited way, during export.
More generic support is indeed not available yet.
The future plan for time zone support has been discussed in
https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/CAL9aZkusXaNVCu7+nO-ic8SHhwVdOiXYtDyF=Gz7h+NoLaOZXQ@mail.gmail.com/

> For example Gnus uses org-capture to convert an icalendar
> event to org instead of some form of native API to synchronize the
> invite with-org.

Sorry, but I do not understand how org-capture has anything to do with
conversion. Capture is just for capturing user text to be saved into Org
file, based on a provided template. It is basically an extended
remember.el.

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