[kdepim-users] Timezone issue

[Johann Rohwer]

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.


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