There's a bunch of online calendar applications. I've been happily using 30boxes for now - I like the quick response times. The new kid on the block is Google Calendar, so I try it out. Looks nice and fast too. When I sign up, it asks me (as 30boxes did) what timezone I'm in: London baby yeah!. I export my events from 30boxes in ICS format, which looks a little like this:
... BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Andrea arrives DESCRIPTION: DTSTART:20060413T140500 DTEND:20060413T140500 DTSTAMP:20060413T025702 UID:X-30Boxes-32476 URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2006-04-13 END:VEVENT ...
and I import the ICS into Google Calendar and all the times are off by eight hours!. That 2.05pm event is now at 10.05pm. Pesky dates! Pesky software!
So I try to work around this, set the timezone to be GMT-8, try to reimport and GCalendar won't let me reimport the events. It's beginning to be a hateful day, but at least Andrea is arriving this afternoon...
