Re: [Evolution] time anomaly

[Ron Wilson <ronw paradise net nz>]

No Not Mandrake but Evolution.
I have suffered this problem for some time and have been told that it is
fixed in 1.5
Something as major as a time problem and the best offer is to wait for a
future version. There has been talk about using a snapshot which has the
correction, but I went down that road and it was a disaster. So many
objects installed that were newer than the code in the snapshot.
Maybe I just expect to much but I would have thought an obvious fault
like time being 13 hours out would be easily fixed with a patch.
Oh and it doesn't help that Ximian download mechanism does not support
Mandrake 9.2. Guess they will fix that in a future also <g>


On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 10:10, .b e. wrote:
> i normally have a good concept of time, and dont own a watch so its always 
> bugged me that linux application time is so inconsistent and fixing it so 
> vague.
>
> evolution seems to be no different.
>
> irrespective of what timezone,  utc or local (utc+13), the bios is set to, 
> evolution reports the time a message is posted as real local time  +1300 
> hours, which means i'm posting in the future.
> it displays this in the message as proper time "+1300" but in the folder 
> view it actually adds the 13hours to the local time and displays the message 
> as being sent in the future.
>
> setting the time zone to none in calendar settings doesnt help, because that 
> immediately resets itself to utc.
>
> its difficult to justify linux to anyone when the computer has to be set up 
> with a time that is wrong to get the applications to report it correctly.
>
> then again this is all probably just another mandrake stuffup.
>
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Ron Wilson


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