[BLU/Officers] Boston Linux Meeting, Wednesday, August 16, 2017 - Federico Returns

[Jerry Feldman]

Looks correct now

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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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On Aug 10, 2017 5:24 AM, "John Abreau" <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> Hi, Bill.
>
> The script uses Data::ICal to generate the results, and I had hard-wired
> it to use an offset of '-0500'.
>
> I just modified it to check if a date was DST or not, and put either
> '-0400' or '-0500' in a variable, then use that variable to specify the
> offset:
>
> However, instead of correcting the time, it's truncating it:
>
>                     dtstart => Date::ICal->new(
>                         day => $date[2], month => $date[1], year =>
> $date[0],
>                         hour => $start[0], min => $start[1], sec =>
> $start[2],
>                         offset => '-0500')->ical,
>
> yields
>
>     DTSTART:20170817T010000Z
>
> but
>
>                     dtstart => Date::ICal->new(
>                         day => $date[2], month => $date[1], year =>
> $date[0],
>                         hour => $start[0], min => $start[1], sec =>
> $start[2],
>                         offset => $offset)->ical,
>
> yields
>
>     DTSTART:20170817Z
>
> I'm not sure why.
>
> To check for DST, I'm doing the following:
>
>         my $time = timelocal(0, 0, 0, $st[3], $st[4], $st[5]);
>         my ($dst) = (localtime($time))[8];
>         $offset = $dst ? '-0400' : '-0500';
>
> Any ideas why this is failing and what I need to do to fix it?
>
> Attached is the cgi script, with database password modified.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Says Sat Aug 19 at 8pm 👹
>>>
>>
>> ​Saturday is not ​
>>
>> ​what i'm seeing
>> I added http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics  to my Google Calendar;
>> that version says 9pm EDT (or 17th, 01Z ) :
>>
>> $ wget -O - --quiet http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics
>>
>> ...
>>
>> BEGIN:VEVENT
>>> CATEGORIES:BLU\;Linux\;UNIX\;LUG\;User Group
>>> CLASS:PUBLIC
>>> DESCRIPTION:Federico tells us what he's been working on in the past
>>> year\n\
>>>  nDetails at http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2017-aug
>>> DTEND:20170817T020000Z
>>> DTSTAMP:20170809T210640Z
>>> *DTSTART:20170817T010000Z*
>>> LOCATION:MIT Building E-51\, Room 315
>>> SUMMARY:Federico Returns
>>> UID:201708092106401502327200.8718800 at cheyenne.blu.org
>>> END:VEVENT
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>
>> To state the obvious,
>> T0100Z would be 8pm in Winter EST,
>> but is 9pm in Summer EDT.
>>
>> Linked BLU event page ​says 8pm on correct date.
>> http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2017-aug
>>
>>
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>
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