[kdepim-users] Timezone issue

[Atanas Zhelev]

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.

Atanas

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