Date: 27 Aug 2003 07:20:50 +0000 From: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: William Bloom <wbloom@eldocomp.com> Subject: Re: Evolution Message Summary View Message-ID: <1061968849.30572.206.camel@mjtdev1.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> In-Reply-To: <1061966026.85815.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1061961341.64207.13.camel@dell652.ecinet.com> <1061966026.85815.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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I hadnt found the catalyst either .. but it also affects the sent time
that Evo puts on outbound emails...
HTH also.
mjt
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 06:33, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 01:15, William Bloom wrote:
> > I finally tracked the timezone offset shifting problem down to
> > icaltime.c I am working with version 1.4.4 sources. The problem is as
> > follows...
> >
> > When the summary view is selected (sometimes other views as well, I
> > suspect) some steps are done that require temporarily setting the
> > timezone to UTC. So set_tz() is called to change the TZ environment
> > variable to "TZ=UTC" using setenv(), then unset_tz() is called to put
> > the TZ environment variable back the way it was afterward. Now, in
> > FreeBSD, the TZ environment variable usually doesn't exist because
> > tzset() typically just works from /etc/localtime. In this case,
> > unset_tz() is supposed to simply remove TZ from the environment. It
> > does this using putenv("TZ") (SVR4 convention?). However, this has no
> > effect in FreeBSD (the FreeBSD-ish technique for deleting an
> > environment variable is unsetenv("TZ")). So when the (usual) case
> > arises of there being no TZ environment variable when Evolution is
> > started in FreeBSD, then TZ=UTC ends up being inserted into the
> > environment whenever certain views are selected and is never deleted
> > afterward.
> >
> > The solution (untested anywhere but on my FreeBSD desktop) seems to be
> > to change putenv("TZ") to unsetenv("TZ") in...
> >
> > libical/src/libical/icaltime.c
> >
> > According to man pages, this is valid for Linux as well as FreeBSD
> > although I notice that early Solaris systems lack unsetenv(). I don't
> > have a recent vintage Solaris system to check.
> >
> > Or an easy workaround would be to simply add TZ to the environment
> > before running Evolution.
>
> Funny you should mention this. I already have patches, and I will be
> testing them soon. Look for an Evo update sometime in a few hours.
>
> Joe
>
> >
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 22:11, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 18:33, William Bloom wrote:
> > > > I've just installed the Evolution 1.4.4 port and I'm generally
> > > pleased,
> > > > with reservations. I've encountered the inbox permission problem
> > > > reported in other posts to freebsd-questions, but also I've noticed
> > > that
> > > > there seems to be a date/time formatting problem in the message
> > > summary
> > > > view that's not been mentioned in earlier posts. For that matter,
> > > I've
> > > > seen nothing referencing this problem in the issue list at
> > > > http://developer.ximian.org/projects/evolution. The symptom is that a
> > > > message's date/time is shown as expected when the view is first
> > > > displayed after Evolution startup. But if -any- other view is
> > > displayed
> > > > (i.e. Summary), then on return to the message summary the date/times
> > > all
> > > > are evidently displayed with a UTC time offset (0) instead of the
> > > > correct one. Once this occurs, the date/time never returns to the
> > > > current offset until Evolution is stopped and restarted. Has anyone
> > > > else seen this as well, or know a workaround?
> > >
> > > Ah, that's the catalyst. There have been numerous reports of this
> > > problem, but I was never able to reproduce it. Switching views is the
> > > catalyst. I suspect this is not a FreeBSD bug, but now that I have a
> > > definite catalyst, I will take this to the Ximian people, and see what
> > > they have to say.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Bill
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