Re: [Evolution] Time drifting using Android - Exchange 2010 - Evolution

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 22:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > DTSTART:20130602T180000
> > DTEND:20130602T190000
>
> Hm, that's odd. Shouldn't those end with a 'Z' to indicate that they are
> in GMT? Then they'd be correct, right? The meeting was actually at 18:00
> GMT?

        Hi,
let's call it UTC, not GMT, to have same terminology as in RFC. 

Date/time stored this way, without timezone, is called "floating" [1],
which means that it's in your case between 18 - 19 in whatever timezone
you see the event. If you read the section at [1] carefully, then you'll
notice that it's not good to use floating times, thus I'd say that the
phone software is a bit lazy (though it depends on actual data received
from the Exchange server).

A bug on evolution's side might be that it doesn't convert the time to
your Europe/Oslo timezone, but rather to UTC, and then convert it to
Europe/Oslo, but I imported your event into my calendar and it behaves
correctly according to [1], it sticks at 6PM to 7PM on Sunday June 2nd
either I look on it in EST or CET timezone (this is with git master,
development 3.9.2 version, but it might be quite the same as stable
3.8.2).

On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 21:06 +0200, Vidar Evenrud Seeberg wrote: 
> I hope this post "comes to the right place". I had to reply based on the 
> digest since I did not have your single post. I have now disabled 
> digesting and hopefully I am on the right track now

Do not worry, it was only a hint from my side. By the way, in a digest,
you might be able to reply to an individual message by clicking the
button above each respective message, then you get a context menu, where
is an item to reply to that particular email.
        Bye,
        Milan

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.3.5