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(Readme): Mention UTC settings for org-icalendar-timezone.
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David Engster committed Jan 22, 2013
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* It is usually a good idea to manually set org-icalendar-timezone to
the timezone of your remote calendar. It should be a simple string
like "Europe/Berlin". You can also take a look at the other
org-icalendar variables, since org-caldav uses this package to
export your entries.
like "Europe/Berlin". If that doesn't work and your events are
shifted by a few hours, try the setting "UTC" (the SOGo calendar
server seems to need this).

You can also take a look at the other org-icalendar variables, since
org-caldav uses this package to export your entries.

Call org-caldav-sync to start the sync. The URL package will ask you
for username/password for accessing the calendar. (See below on how to
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really really sure you have properly set org-icalendar-timezone, and
that your calendar is configured to use the same one.

If it still does not work, you can try setting org-icalendar-timezone
to the string "UTC". This will put all events using UTC times and the
server should transpose the time to the timezone you have set in your
calendar preferences. For some servers (like SOGo) this might work
better than setting a "real" timezone.

#### Troubleshooting

By default, org-caldav will put all kinds of debug output into the
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