General Information

With this weekend’s transition in the U.S. from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time, let’s resume the discussion of timezones we started in a posting earlier this month on this blog, “Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars – A CalConnect Perspective”. One of the way stations in our journey to understanding the issues raised in David Pogue’s New York Times’ posting of October 13th, “Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars” is understanding timezones at a high level.

Zimbra is a software vendor that provides an open source email, calendaring & collaboration suite. Zimbra has over 4,000 customers using the commercial version of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, representing over 55 million paid users, including business and government customers of all sizes, over 400 higher education institutions, and service providers such as Comcast Cable and NTT Communications — and Zimbra also has multiple CalConnect member organizations among its user base.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes TimeTrade Systems as a member of the consortium.  

A brief report on Roundtable XIX has been posted to the CalConnect website.  

CalConnect has published An Introduction to Internet Calendering. This Introduction provides an overview of the major calendaring & scheduling standards and data exchange protocols. It is available in both HTML and PDF formats.  

Earlier this week, David Pogue’s posting (http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/shifting-time-zones-on-online-calendars/) “Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars Appeared on the New York Times web site. For the last 10 years, Pogue has been writing the Times’ “Personal Tech” column, and is perhaps the most influential tech writer in the U.S.

CalConnect XIX is underway at IBM/Lotus in Littleton, MA. Today, tomorrow and Wednesday morning are the interoperability test event; Wednesday-Friday will be Roundtable XIX. Our thanks to IBM/Lotus for hosting this event.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium welcomes Tungle Corp. as a member of the Consortium.  

CalConnect and OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, have been tasked jointly by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to produce one of the standards that will make it possible to monitor, predict and manage power consumption: see CalConnect, OASIS, Team Up on Key Smart-Grid Project. For a PDF version see: CalConnect, OASIS, Team Up on Key Smart-Grid Project. 

The XML Technical Committee has published CalWS-Rest Restful Web Services Protocol for Calendaring. This work was undertaken in conjunction with the OASIS WS CALENDAR Technical Committee and will become a component of the WS-Calendar specification, in addition to being progressed within CalConnect as a calendaring operations API for web services. Please see CalWS-Rest Restful Web Services Protocol for Calendaring.