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tuomasvesala — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:01:18 -0000

Sorry, no success what so ever, the import-function just does not work regardless of the time format. Four hours of b-s is enough for me, let the nerds go down with their calendars.

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surreywoman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:29:35 -0000

Thanks for writing up such a detailed guide - your second method worked perfectly for me.

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Stogey_B — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:46:21 -0000

Sunbird has definite ideas about how dates are formatted. So does Outlook. The oft-quoted simple procedure for importing Outlook calendars into Sunbird assumes they are both reading from the same page. WTAFSIH (well there's a flying snowball in hell)

Perhaps it works with date settings "out of the box". I use an ISO format: 09-06-20 14:30:00. Both Sunbird and Outlook give me these formats in lists of appointments. But the import/export rules seem to be a different story.

An Outlook export shows ..,"2009-6-20","14:30:00",.. Looks like my fav but with a four digit year--fair enough.

A Sunbird export shows ..,"06/20/09","02:30:00 PM",.. Where did that come from? But wait, there's more... When this file is re-imported into Sunbird the event doesn't show up in the calendar. But if you force a display of "All Events" there they are. Click on one and the calendar will show it but the heading on the calendar will be "June 8 - July 5, 9". That 9 seems to refer to the year 9 A.D. Does Sunbird import assume a four digit year no matter what?

I solved this by importing the Outlook .csv file into a spreadsheet (O-O Calc, of course) and messing with formats (including adding the double quotes). Saving as a .csv gave me a usable file. But while writing this up an easier method occurred to me.

Go into your Control panel Regional Settings and change your date/time formats. If you're not in a "US" region you'll have to use customize. You need date format as MM/dd/yyyy and time as hh:mm:ss tt. Outlook export will then put out ..,"06/20/2009","02:30:00 PM",.. and Sunbird import will work.

Parting shot: At first it seemed that "Sunbird did nothing" as noted by others. Not true. It read the file, found an invalid date format and then did nothing. Like put out as simple message, "Invalid date format" maybe? Shoddy. Oops, sorry, I shouldn't be snarking like that, I should get involved in the project.

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Phil — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:57:50 -0000

Worked great for me. Thanks!

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fsfs — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:19:51 -0000

Silent failure - come on Mozilla - do better and slam microsoft into the ground

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Don — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:57:25 -0000

Same as Matts, nothing happens, fedup of attempting to do it, back to outlook.

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Matt — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:42:48 -0000

The final step does nothing - it just closes the import window without importing anything.

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Fred — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:11:13 -0000

Cool. Thank you!