Re: [Evolution-hackers] [timezone problem] Evolution calendar "blew" transition from CEST to CET

[Patrick Ohly <patrick ohly gmx de>]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 02:27 +0100, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Well, as you might know, today there was the switch from savings time to
> CET here in Europe.
> At 3 am, clocks are reset to 2 am. Well, at about 1:40 am, I entered a
> new event into calendar, setting the alarm notifier to 1 minute before
> the event. But no alarm notifier occurred.
> I had forgotten that the time switch was about to occur.
> Then I added a new event, tried to set the time using the "now" button,
> but it gave the wrong time, one hour back to the actual time. I
> reconfigured tzdata, checked the timezone preferences in evolution,
> which was set to system time.
> Well, finally, when it was 3 am and my system clock would make the
> switch as expected, evolution would behave correctly again. Seems, as if
> evolution doesn't make the switch at the correct time!

A known bug in the system timezone to libical conversion code:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562028

Fixed by the Scalix developers recently, available in libical 0.44.

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