Issue 522 in googlecl: Calendar Function Returns Events Outside of Specified Date Range as Specified in Local Time.

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New issue 522 by neilormos: Calendar Function Returns Events Outside of
Specified Date Range as Specified in Local Time.
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/issues/detail?id=522

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Select a range of dates for testing. Example: 2012-08-06,2014-03-29

2. Create a test event on the calendar for 2012-08-05 beginning at 2100 and
ending at 2130.

More generally, useful test events will have some portion of the event
outside the range as interpreted in local time, but inside the range as
interpreted in UTC. In the U.S. local times lag UTC by several hours, so
an ideal test event is on the evening (local time) prior to the first date
in the range, after 2400 UTC and before 2400 local time. For locations in
the continental U.S., test events after 8 PM and before midnight on the day
prior to the test range should be suitable.

3. Call the calendar function:

google calendar --config=$config-file list --delim=^
--fields=when,title,where,who --date=2012-08-06,2014-03-29

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected results: The calendar function should return only events matching
the range specified in the --date option as interpreted in local time as
defined by the TZ environment variable.

Observed results:

The calender function returns events outside the date range specified in
the --date option (as interpreted in local time) if the date of the event
in UTC is within the date range. In other words, calendar will display
events from the day prior to the date range if any portion of the event is
within the UTC day of the first date in the range.

The calendar function appears to treat dates specified in the --date option
as though in the UTC time zone, despite the setting of the "Calendar Time
Zone:" data element in the web interface and despite the setting of the TZ
environment variable. As a result, if you specify a range of dates using
the --date option, calendar will display an event that is outside that
range, as interpreted in local time (as the user would expect), if any
portion of such event is within the range when interpreted in UTC.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? What
version of gdata-python-client (aka python-gdata)?

/usr/bin/google0.9.14
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7 (squeeze) 2.6.32-5-amd64
python-gdata 2.0.8-1.1

Please provide any additional information below.

I am unable to reproduce the problem with

google 0.9.13
Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) 2.6.35-32-generic
python-gdata 2.0.8-1.1

so it may be new behavior in 0.9.14. The problem may be related to issues
427 and 515.



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