[korganizer] [Bug 373988] KOrganiser time zone locked to UTC and not possible to change.

Gerry Makaro aka Fraser_Bell bugzilla_noreply at kde.org
Tue Sep 26 23:16:04 BST 2017


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373988

--- Comment #13 from Gerry Makaro aka Fraser_Bell <Fraser_Bell at openSUSE.org> ---
(In reply to Gerry Makaro aka Fraser_Bell from comment #12)
> (In reply to Don Curtis from comment #11)
> > Some comments to the issues around UTC and Linux and KDE:
> > 
> > On the other hand, the time-of-day displayed for the event is always
> > correctly displayed as the correct local time (dependent on the machine's
> > time zone location setting -- system/BIOS clock is UTC) for when the event
> > shall occur.
> 
> ... or, is it?
> 
> In the Day view, in the Schedule window, on the left are the times.
> 
> At the top of that column, does it show your time zone?  Or, does it show it
> as UTC?
> 
> If UTC (as it does in my case), then although it seems to put the items at
> the "correct time", it is actually saying that schedule is UTC time.
> 
> ... and, in that case, the UTC time it is running under is actually
> incorrect by the same shift as your time zone.
> 
> It is interpreting Local time as UTC time.
> 
> This is not good, and can cause multiple problems.

However, this is apparently not in KDE's Plasma, this is happening to me in
Xfce.  It seems kOrganizer's problem is when it is in another Desktop, and
possibly when the full KDE desktop has not been installed.

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