Re: [Evolution] evolution 3.20.0 - ICS calendar - appointments are off by two hours

[Jay Strict <jay strict posteo de>]

On 12.04.2016 14:03, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 11:28 +0200, Jay Strict wrote:
> > In the application evolution itself, the dates are displayed
> > correctly, however both in the top bar of gnome-shell and in gnome-
> > calendar, the same date is diplayed 2 hours off for all appointments
> > of this calendar.

> it looks like a timezone issue. Maybe the calendar creates the events
> with a floating time, thus without a particular timezone. You can check
> that when you right-click an event in the Evolution's Calendar view and
> choose "Save as iCalendar...", then open the saved file in a text
> editor and search for lines which start with DTSTART or DTEND (if there
> are more of these, then the interesting are those between BEGIN:VEVENT
> and END:VEVENT lines). Feel free to paste them here. 

Here is one complete file (with some anonymizations). They do not have a
suffix Z and there is no TZID.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Ximian//NONSGML Evolution Calendar//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT

DTSTART:20160412T130000

DTEND:20160412T150000

LOCATION:some location

SUMMARY:some summary

DESCRIPTION:some description

UID:20160412T141031Z-906-1000-784-533 desktop

DTSTAMP:20160412T141031Z

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR


> If they have a
> TZID parameter, or they end with a 'Z' (which denotes a UTC time), then
> I'd ask gnome-shell and/or gnome-calendar developers to look on the
> event itself, supposing you'll be able to give them a test event. You
> might also check your system timezone, whether it's properly stored and
> detected by the gnome-shell and gnome-calendar.

# timedatectl
      Local time: Di 2016-04-12 16:20:04 CEST
  Universal time: Di 2016-04-12 14:20:04 UTC
        RTC time: Di 2016-04-12 14:20:03
       Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CEST, +0200)
 Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no


> You can check which
> timezone the Evolution found as being set in the system in
> Edit->Preferences->Calendar and Tasks part->General tab->Time section,
> the "Use system time zone" checkbox is followed by the timezone name as
> detected by the Evolution.

In the General tab it says:
Time zone: (Checkbox checked) Use system time zone (Europe/Berlin)
Second zone: None

So Europe/Berlin is used by Evolution.



So this means that these are bugs in gnome-calender and gnome-shell?


Best regards
Jay