Re: [Evolution] calendar one day to early

[Kaare Fiedler Christiansen <mail kaarefc dk>]

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 11:22 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > Right-click on calendar entry and select "Save as iCalendar" - there
> > > will be information in the iCal file about the time zone and the exact
> > > dates.  This will show if the entry itself is correct.
> > I took the entry from eastern sunday as example which I didnot change
> > sofar:
>
> I presume that Easter Sunday is 8th April 2012 - it is on my calendar
> anyway.  So I see a problem:
>
> > DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120407 
> > DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120408 
>
> In my entry that I just created for Easter Sunday 2012 it says
>
>         DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120408
>         DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120409
>
> So somewhere along the line the wrong dates have been entered - it might
> well have been a timezone problem when you imported the information from
> elsewhere?

I seem to recall that quite a few versions back evolution had a bug
concerning timezones and all day events, that gave that effect
(basically if your timezone was East of the Greenwich meridian, your
all-day events would be one day off). If the holiday calendar was
imported back then, then that is very likely the problem.

> Since the actual entries now have the wrong info in them, I suspect the
> only way you can deal with it is to manually alter everything.

I would suggest the following:
1) Go to list view
2) Select Search->Advanced Search
3) Add condition "Location" "Contains" "Deutchland"; press OK
4) For each event; press Ctrl D to delete it
5) Press the right arrow for next month (why can list view only cover
one month?)
6) Repeat steps 4 and 5 until all events are deleted
7) Import a new holiday calendar, e.g.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/caldata/GermanHolidays.ics

Good luck.

Best,
  KÃre