* Other Calendars:: Converting dates to other calendar systems.
* Diary:: Displaying events from your diary.
* Appointments:: Reminders when it's time to do something.
-* iCalendar:: Converting diary events to/from iCalendar format.
+* Importing Diary:: Converting diary events to/from other formats.
* Daylight Savings:: How to specify when daylight savings time is active.
* Time Intervals:: Keeping track of time intervals.
@end menu
list without affecting your diary file. You delete entries from the
appointment list with @kbd{M-x appt-delete}.
-@node iCalendar
-@section iCalendar
-@cindex iCalendar support
+@node Importing Diary
+@section Importing and Exporting Diary Entries
+
+ You can transfer diary entries between Emacs diary files and a
+variety of other formats.
- The icalendar package aims at providing an implementation of the
-iCalendar standard, as defined in ``RFC 2445 -- Internet Calendaring and
-Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)''. It provides a means
-for importing iCalendar (and the earlier vCalendar format) data into
-Emacs diary files and vice versa.
+@vindex diary-outlook-formats
+ You can import diary entries from Outlook-generated appointment
+messages. While viewing such a message in Rmail or Gnus, do @kbd{M-x
+diary-from-outlook} to import the entry. You can make this command
+recognize additional appointment message formats by customizing the
+variable @code{diary-outlook-formats}.
+
+@cindex iCalendar support
+ The icalendar package allows you to transfer data between your Emacs
+diary file and iCalendar files, which are defined in ``RFC
+2445---Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
+(iCalendar)'' (as well as the earlier vCalendar format).
Importing works for ``ordinary'' (i.e. non-recurring) events, but (at
present) may not work correctly (if at all) for recurring events.