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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:21:57 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        hartzell@alerce.com
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: evolution and DST?
Message-ID:  <45F6DDB5.9070800@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <17910.51629.452190.174522@satchel.alerce.com>
References:  <17910.51629.452190.174522@satchel.alerce.com>

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George Hartzell wrote:
> My freebsd 6.2-STABLE laptop handled the DST transition correctly, but
> the little red line that Evolution uses to mark the current time is
> off by one hour.
> 
> Some digging tells me that evolution doesn't use the system time zone
> data:
> 
>    http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-list@gnome.org/msg05441.html
> 
> and that it uses the implementation in the libical library:
> 
>    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301363
> 
> I tried applying a patch from the above thread to the Los_Angeles.ics
> file, which gave evolution the correct notion of the time, but caused
> all (or most, or ???) of my calendar entries to be off by one hour.
> 
> Did I miss an announcement about clearing this up?
> 
> Is there some way to fix it w/out portsnaping my entire ports tree and
> rebuilding?

The diffs at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=83954 seem more
correct to me.  Try patching Los_Angeles.ics with those, then try
re-selecting your timezone in Evo.  Also, see comments #54 and #55.
Looks like you may need to reschedule these appointments post March 11.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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