[Kde-pim] Using TimeZones in KDEPIM

[David Jarvie]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:04, Allen Winter wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Till and I were discussing timezones this morning and it became clear to
> us that we no longer need to use KOrganizer as the "timezone setting app"
> for all of KDEPIM -- we should be using the KDE system timezone for that
> now.
>
> So here's a proposed plan that we think will solve this.
> Let us know what you think about it.
>
> The Plan:
> 1) Ignore the TimeZoneId setting in korganizerrc
>    a) change KPimPrefs::timeSpec() to only look for your system timezone.
>        (currently it looks for korganizerrc's TimeZoneId value first, then
>         the system timezone)
>    b) change the timezone pref in korganizer (Settings->Time&Date)
>         to modify the system timezone -- and no longer write TimeZoneId.
>         with the appropriate to "do you really want to change the system
>         timezone" confirmation dialog.
> 2) Ensure all KDEPIM apps call KPimPrefs::timeSpec() when they want to
> know
>     the timezone.

I'm not sure I really understand what you're proposing. AFAICS, what you
are saying is that the system time zone should always be used as the main
setting for PIM apps, and if a different time zone is selected in
KOrganizer's settings, that should be set as the new system time zone
(which would need the root password to change). If that's correct, then I
don't see the need to use KPimPrefs::timeSpec() at all, since it will just
return the system time zone which could more transparently be fetched by
KSystemTimeZones::local().

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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