[kdepim-users] Timezone issue

[O. Sinclair]

On 13/03/2013 16:30, Johann Rohwer wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 March 2013 16:09:14 O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 13/03/2013 15:55, Atanas Zhelev wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013, at 03:48 PM, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> On 11/03/2013 11:50, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>>> on KDE 4.10.1 on Kubuntu 12.10
>>>>>
>>>>> it was pointed out to me by moderators on kde.org that my mails
>>>>> are sent with date/timezone set to +02.04 -.. as my kde
>>>>> timezone setting is +02.00 hours (Harare/Africa) I wonder where
>>>>> the extra 4 minutes originate from??
>>>>>
>>>>> is there an rc-file somewhere that manipulates this or some
>>>>> other
>>>>> setting area that might have gone whack?
>>>>
>>>> Well noone responded to this but some trial and error found that
>>>> Thunderbird puts the Date on sent mails to UTC +0200 as supposed
>>>> while KMail sets it to UTC +0204
>>>>
>>>> Changing timezone to Lusaka/Africa, also being CAT or UTC +0200
>>>> "fixes" the problem.
>>>>
>>>> I have got the problem confirmed by another KMail user here in
>>>> Zimbabwe and also the "fix".
>>>>
>>>> Question is - is this a very strange KMail bug or an error with
>>>> files for Harare/Africa in /usr/share/zoneinfo??
>>>>
>>>> /Sinclair
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> you could try dumping the information in the timezone file with
>>> zdump -v file
>>>
>>> and then check the offsets. Might lead you to something.
>>
>> I can read the contents with command
>> file /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Africa/Harare
>> but it "decodes" the file and the output looks just fine.
>>
>> am starting to suspect a really oddball KMail bug...
>
> On a related note, I am from South Africa and sync my calendar with
> Google calendars using the Akonadi CalDAV resource which works just
> fine. However, if I set my timezone to Africa/Johannesburg, the events
> are offset by 1 hour between my Google calendar and Korganizer. Again,
> if I use Africa/Lusaka everything just works fine. I have actually
> tried using Africa/Harare as well and found my events to be offset by 4
> minutes, so I'm sure this is related to the issue Sinclair is
> reporting.
>
> I've just given up and have now set the time zone to Africa/Lusaka on
> my computer.
>
>
Ha ha, that Lusaka would ever work better than Joburg! Sorry completely 
off-topic and perhaps only Johann and others in the southern Africa get 
what I mean..

but thanks, you strengthen the suspicion that this is KDEPIM (looks like 
not only KMail) rather than Kubuntu (my distro) or the timezone files 
for Africa/Harare itself.

Now how to report this bug.. "suspected weirdness with timezone readings..."
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