Re: [Evolution] EWS: Calendar moving my appointments 30 minutes forward?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> This is on Kubuntu 13.10, jhbuild built Evo 3.11.90 webkit-composer
> branch which was repo rebased 13 days ago.  Account is exchange with
> evolution-ews.

What version of Exchange?

> I just recognized that for the meetings I created, Evolution pushes it
> 30 minutes later.  My system timezone is: Asia/Dubai, I tried setting
> it manually in Evolution, no change.
>
>
> When I create appointment, say at 15:00, it appears at 15:00, then 3-4
> seconds later, it moves to 15:30. Basically, evolution sets the
> appointment on Tehran time zone, rather than the selected Dubai time
> zone. (ie it sets is 15:00 Tehran time rather than Dubai time)

Basically timezones are an horrendous issue in any calendaring
application - in fact date and time calculations are a disgustingly
complicated thing in general.  If you search for "evolution-ews
timezone" on Google you get some hits on blog entries and bugzilla
reports on problems and some hints on how to deal with them.  Basically
you need to make sure Evolution and Exchange are both using the same
timezone.

P.