Google Calendar is finally here.…

It’s finally arrived…Google Cal­en­dar prom­ises to be the Holy Grail of online cal­en­dar­ing applications.

** Update **

So, why doesn’t Google Cal­en­dar sync with Palm PDA Devices? Really, until there’s a way to enable PDA sync, this is really a lim­ited app. Using iCal as described below is a kludge. Need a nat­ive app to do this.
** End Update **

For a year or so, I’ve been look­ing for some­thing that would let me coördin­ate my work, home, hobby and sig­ni­fic­ant oth­ers’ cal­en­dars into one nice tidy pack­age. It seems that Google Cal­en­dar may just be that package.

I’ve dis­covered one ‘minor’ thing, which may be based on how I get data out of my palm pilot and into GC.…Timezones are screwed. We’re in GMT –7, but for everything to work, I have to set GC to GMT –1. Not a big issue right now, but should I layer in other cal­en­dars, things could get hairy.

I have a feel­ing that the gPi­lot util­ity I use to gen­er­ate .ics files on my Ubuntu box doesn’t do the TimeZone out­put properly…will check into it.

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