Wrong date in Thunderbird[solved]

Excubia · 2015-09-10 21:22:52

The kernel tels me that my local time is UTC +0200

Thunderbird thinks it is UTC + 0000.

This results in all my e-mails and calendar being shifted by 2 hours.

How can I fix Thunderbird ?

Last edited by Excubia (2015-09-10 21:36:32)

ewaller · 2015-09-10 21:29:52

What is the output of timedatectl ?

Excubia · 2015-09-10 21:31:08

Local time: jeu. 2015-09-10 23:30:04 CEST
  Universal time: jeu. 2015-09-10 21:30:04 UTC
        Timezone: Europe/Paris (CEST, +0200)
     NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: yes
 Last DST change: DST began at
                  dim. 2015-03-29 01:59:59 CET
                  dim. 2015-03-29 03:00:00 CEST
 Next DST change: DST ends (the clock jumps one hour backwards) at
                  dim. 2015-10-25 02:59:59 CEST
                  dim. 2015-10-25 02:00:00 CET

Excubia · 2015-09-10 21:36:18

Ok, this was a Torbirdy issue…

ewaller · 2015-09-10 21:39:31

GMT is 21:38 right now. It looks like your clock is and timezone are set correctly.
Sorry for the sanity check...

Edit: Try this article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_ … r_computer
How is your locale set?

Edit2: I think we were posting at the same time

Last edited by ewaller (2015-09-10 21:42:30)

R00KIE · 2015-09-11 10:31:06

And you should also update your system, current timedatectl does not output DST change dates anymore.

ewaller · 2015-09-11 14:48:26

R00KIE wrote:

current timedatectl does not output DST change dates anymore.

Well, I'll be....

At the risk of hijacking the thread, how does one get that information now (without analyzing the file as defined in man tzfile)?

R00KIE · 2015-09-11 16:55:44

You would have to use zdump[1] and maybe grep, awk, others. You may want to see commit 16c6ea29348ddac73998f339166f863bee0dfef6 on the systemd github page to see the explanation of why they removed this. IMHO they could have left it as it was, it was a nice thing to have thing even if it didn't do anything else.

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/805185/l … -direction

ewaller · 2015-09-11 18:03:48

Or at least provide a command line option for it
I had glanced at zdump, but missed the -v switch. Somehow I doubt the entry for 2499-Nov-1 will remain unchanged until then

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