Closed lawlist closed 10 years ago
As of today (November 3, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time), all tasks created / modified in Emacs (setting the date for today
) are synchronizing to the Toodledo server as yesterday
.
In Los Angeles, California, the clocks changed backwards one hour at 2:00 a.m. -- the system preferences time zone on OSX 10.6.8 now shows Pacific Standard Time
.
This is the current workaround:
(cond
((equal (car (cdr (current-time-zone))) "PDT")
(setenv "TZ" "UTC+9"))
((equal (car (cdr (current-time-zone))) "PST")
(setenv "TZ" "UTC+8")))
Oh how I love timezones, particularly Daylight Savings!
Here's what I know:
org-toodledo just relies on org to convert a timestring like <2014-04-15 Tue 09:00>
into a timestamp via org-time-string-to-seconds
. This uses the systems default timezone, unless you set the TZ variable as you have. This converts the time to a epoch seconds since 1970 GMT.
For example:
Eval: (org-time-string-to-seconds "<2014-04-15 Tue 09:00>")
1397566800.0
I'm currently in EDT (-0400), and this matches the time from unix date command:
date -d "Sun Apr 15 09:00 -0400 2014" +"%s"
1397566800
At best, I don't think there is much to do about this in org-toodledo, probably not even org-mode. I seem to recall having a problem once before with the Toodledo server not displaying date/times correctly relative to DST.
A few things to check:
Reopen if you find something in org-toodledo that you think could address this.
Thank you for the helpful information -- greatly appreciated. I'm not sure if you use the calendar in Emacs. I have mine set up to color-code the tasks / events for both a 3-month calendar view and a 12-month calendar view, and both scroll forwards/ backwards by month. Here is a link to the Github source code. I've made some modifications in my own personal setup and need to update Github when I have the time with some improvements, but the example is already working quite nicely. https://github.com/lawlist/calendar-yearly-scroll-by-month
Newly created local tasks with due date / times after the November daylight savings are being synchronized to the Toodledo server as one hour ahead -- e.g., November 6, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. synchronizes to the Toodledo server as 9:30 a.m.
I'm in Los Angeles, California -- using OSX 10.6.8. -- system preferences time zone "Pacific Daylight Time".