Re: [Evolution] Evolution Calendar and DST 2007

[Matt Kozak <mkozak clam rutgers edu>]

Hmmm.
Is this on anyone's radar or is there any talk of doing something about it 
in Evolution if the libical group is still wrestling with it (I see a lot 
of confusion on that bug link, but no committed resoolution, but maybe 
it's just late on a Friday...)?

Thanks,
-Matt


On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Matthew Barnes wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 22:28 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:54 -0500, Matt Kozak wrote:
> > > Sorry if this is obtuse or has been covered before I joined, but we are
> > > rolling out Evolution on our new lab systems (Linux/PC dual-boot).
> > > I am wondering if it has any issues with (or patch for) the new DST rules
> > > or if it solely uses the system time, unlike Outlook:
> > > http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102086071033.aspx
> >
> > This is managed by OS tzdata/glibc packages and not evolution , afaik.
>
> Unfortunately, libical (an unmaintained third-party library that's
> distributed with Evolution-Data-Server) does use it's own timezone
> information.
>
> See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301363
>
> Matthew Barnes
>
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Matthew Kozak
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