Re: [Evolution] time anomaly

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

this problem has already been fixed (will be available in 1.4.6 if it
isn't already in 1.4.5)

Jeff

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 16:10, .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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