May 17, 2004

Sun ONE Calendar stuff

Looking for Windows iCal readers, cleaning up from the Jintek Palm sync…

Mozilla with its calendar service makes a decent client for the ical.pl script to access Sun ONE — much like Apple’s iCal. There may be other Windows readers out there as well.

Last week I tried to sync my Palm to Sun ONE with the Jintek sync tool. It’s got several problems, and I won’t recommend it for use:

  • It doesn’t understand time zones or the fact that daylight savings doesn’t exist here.
  • It doesn’t understand multiple calendars on the Sun ONE side.
  • It can’t contact the server via HTTPS.
  • It’s inconsistent and buggy.

I managed to save all the calendar data that was on my Palm, but it’s no longer there. Instead it’s now in a file on the Mac in iCal, after having clobbered my Sun ONE calendar and the Palm calendar with duplicates in the process.

Incidentally, this also introduced me to a number of other admin tools on the Sun ONE server, including cscomponents, which allows me to delete a range of events from the command line on the server (specify the range by dates).

Posted by Rowan Littell at May 17, 2004 01:37 PM