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> Thats a shame on facebooks part. In my case probably all events will > originate from the same timezone. I am guessing that for most users > this scenario is the most likely (or not?!). Would it be possible and > usefull to introduce a user definable "standart correction factor" > with wich Facebook events are corrected so that the calendar works at > least for event creators in one timezone as a workaround? > >> This is Facebook's fault. FB has a *horrible* strategy for dealing >> with timezones in the events API. >> >> Facebook stores the event time as if it were in Pacific Standard >> Time. i.e., I'm on the east coast of the US, I enter an event to >> start at 4:00EST. They store the event as 4:00PST translated to UTC. >> So, when using the API you need to do the calculations yourself. That >> would be fine, except to do the translation properly, you need to >> know the event *creator's* timezone, which we don't know. I took a >> best fit approach, and do the translation based on the Horde user's >> timezone. >> >> This works correctly on Facebook's website since they have access to >> all users' timezone information. >
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