[kdepim-users] Timezone issue

[O. Sinclair]

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...
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