Re: [Evolution] Caledar meeting off by 1 hour

[Joakim Tjernlund <joakim tjernlund transmode se>]

On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 11:29 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 09:30 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > I got this recurring meeting which displays 1 hour
> > too early(8.30) in the calendar view but the reminder alarm
> > goes off correctly(9.15).
> >
> > This meeting lacks TimeZone info(the organiser never set one), I suspect this is the reason.
> >
> > ....
> > DTSTART:20150216T083000
> > DTEND:20150216T084500
>
>         Hi,
> those times are set as floating times, that is, they are supposed to be shown at the given date and time of 
> the user's time zone, which ever it is. Thus if you change your timezone in Edit->Preferences-
> > Calendars and Tasks to any other, then the meeting will still stay at
> 8:30 AM of today (2015-02-16).

I changed Timezone to Europe/Tallin(UTC+2.00) and then this meeting moved to 7.30
while other meetings this day move one hour in the other direction(from 9.00 to 10.00)

> The reminder is set to popup 30 minutes before the meeting, if I read it correctly.

Yes, you are right. I changed it to 15 minutes after I dumped the ical info. 

> There is a chance that evolution-ews failed to convert the timezone from the information given by the 
> server too, because I'm pretty sure that the exchange servers have always set some timezone. I can be wrong 
> here.
>
> The 9:15 of the alarm reminder popup looks odd, at least to me. Could you try to change timezone at Edit-
> > Preferences->Calendars and Tasks, to any other than the system time zone? Is there shown the right system 
> time zone at all?

I have set the timezone explicitly to Europe/Stockholm and to System Timezone(which is also
Europe/Stockholm) but it is still 8.30