[korganizer] [Bug 466860] Time Zone isn't consistent in all parts of APP

[Daniel Vrátil]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466860

Daniel Vrátil <dvratil at kde.org> changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL

--- Comment #1 from Daniel Vrátil <dvratil at kde.org> ---
Hi, this is actually a KDE/Plasma-wide timezone settings, not strictly related
to KOrganizer. KOrganizer just honors whatever is configured in the System
Settings.

However, UTC-6 is not really a timezone, it's UTC time offset, which in some
parts of the world changes with DST (for example I live in Prague, Czech
Republic and our UTC offset is UTC+1 in winter and UTC+2 in summer due to DST).
When I set my timezone to Europe/Prague, the software can determine the current
UTC offset automatically based on the current date. If I were using UTC time
offset as my "timezone", I'd have to change it manually twice a year. The
region you live in doesn't observe DST, so UTC-6 would work for you, but I can
already imagine the bugreports about events sometimes being shown an hour too
early/late by users in DST regions who misconfigured their timezone... :-) 

In other words, for the purpose of "showing what's the current time", UTC
offset is not appropriate and we need a proper timezone.

Settings UTC time offset for events is a different topic, as certain events may
happen at a fixed time regardless of DST.

Looking at Google, Saskatoon doesn't observe DST (mostly), so UTC-6 happens to
work for you, but I don't think we want to introduce this support for the
reasons I described above.

Btw. the reason for distinct America/Regina and America/Swift Current
timezones, even though the cities are quite close to each other, is historical,
as in the past, Swift Current (up until the 70s) actually observed the MST,
while the rest of SK observed CST. They switched to CST in 1972, but the
timezone must be preserved for historical reasons. 

So you should just use America/Regina. There are no other timezones for SK
cities :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Saskatchewan

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