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Cub69

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2006-01-20

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Evolution-2.8 Displaying wrong Timezone

Hi all,

I've been seeing some weirdness with evolution-2.8 and timezones since the change on Sunday (EST to EDT).  I'm running against an exchange server for my calendar and mail.

My system date is shows the correct timezone as EDT.  Evolution, however, does not seem to acknowledge the timezone change and shows its time wrong (red line in calendar is one hour behind).  Appointments are getting messed up with this as well.

Has anyone seen a patch or know of a fix for this?  My system is current to today.

Thanks
Norm

Cub69

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2006-01-20

Posts: 87

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Re: Evolution-2.8 Displaying wrong Timezone

Update -- this is from the Evolution mailing list:

Heya,

  Evolution uses it's opwn time zone data. Update Evolution package ,
restart and check again.

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:31 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Something is weird.  I have my timezone set to America/New_York in
> Evolution and on my system.  I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 with full updates,
> with Evo 2.8.1.
>
> After the timechange on Sunday, my entire system had the right time,
> EXCEPT Evolution.  The little red line in the Calendar was 1 hour
> behind.
>
> I exited and restarted Evo, but that didn't help.  I logged out and back
> in, and that didn't help.  I rebooted my system, and THAT didn't help.
> My system clock and the clock on all apps I've checked is correct, but
> Evo calendar still says it's quarter after 9am instead of quarter after
> 10am.
>
> Is Evo using its own internal timezone calculations instead of the
> system timezone for some utterly bizarre reason?  What could be causing
> this?!?!
>
--

I'm up to date though -- where is the new update for this?

Norm

Cub69

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2006-01-20

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Re: Evolution-2.8 Displaying wrong Timezone

Ok, found a patch for this here:  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301363

How can we get the package maintainer to update the package?  I think it applies to the exchange-data-server component and the maintainer for that is Arjan Timmerman.  Don't have an email address though...

Norm

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Re: Evolution-2.8 Displaying wrong Timezone

Submit a bug report.