[Evolution] Bug#360981: evolution: Times for events in America/Indiana/Indianapolis are incorrect

Brett Smith debbug at brettcsmith.org
Wed Apr 5 18:24:10 UTC 2006


Package: evolution
Version: 2.4.2.1-2
Severity: normal

I live in south-central Indiana; I have /etc/timezone set to
US/East-Indiana, and my Evolution time zone set to
America/Indiana/Indianapolis.  As you've probably heard, this time zone
just recently started observing daylight savings time for the first time in
70 years.

As a result of this change, the times for appointments in my Evolution
calendar are being handled inconsistently.  When I actually look at my
calendar in Evolution itself, everything looks the way I expect it to, with
appointments at the correct time, and so on.  However, when I click on my
GNOME clock applet to bring up a calendar, the times it shows for the day's
appointments are an hour behind the times I expect.  I'm also receiving
alarms an hour later than I should.

I tried changing the
/usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.4/zoneinfo/America/Indiana/Indianapolis.ics
file so that it resembled
/usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.4/zoneinfo/America/New_York.ics.  This
made times for my appointments be reported consistently between different
applications (Evolution and the clock applet), but they were all an hour
behind.

All these problems affect all appointments that occur while we're observing
daylight savings time.  If I look at appointments far into the future,
after we fall back, correct times are reported everywhere.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.1-1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  evolution-d 1.4.2.1-2                    evolution database backend server
ii  gconf2      2.14.0-1                     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon- 2.14.2-1                     GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gtkhtml3.8  3.8.1-1.1                    HTML rendering/editing library - b
ii  libart-2.0- 2.3.17-1                     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-1                     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofil 0.2.6-6                      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libavahi-cl 0.6.9-8                      Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-co 0.6.9-8                      Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-co 0.6.9-8                      Avahi Howl compatibility library
ii  libavahi-gl 0.6.9-8                      Avahi glib integration library
ii  libbonobo2- 2.14.0-1                     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui 2.14.0-1                     The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6       2.3.6-4                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcairo2   1.0.2-3                      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcamel1.2 1.4.2.1-2                    The Evolution MIME message handlin
ii  libcomerr2  1.38+1.39-WIP-2006.03.29-2.1 common error description library
ii  libdb4.2    4.2.52-24                    Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libdbus-1-2 0.61-5                       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebook1.2 1.4.2.1-2                    Client library for evolution addre
ii  libecal1.2- 1.4.2.1-2                    Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataser 1.4.2.1-2                    Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataser 1.4.2.1-2                    GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libesd0     0.2.36-3                     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconf 2.3.2-5.1                    generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype 2.1.10-3                     FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgail-com 1.8.11-1                     GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17   1.8.11-1                     GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1                     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1                      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2                    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0- 2.10.1-2                     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-ke 0.4.9-1                      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome-pi 2.0.12-1.6                   Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii  libgnome2-0 2.14.0-2                     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecan 2.14.0-1                     A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomepri 2.12.1-3                     The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomepri 2.12.1-2                     GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
ii  libgnomeui- 2.14.0-1                     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs 2.14.0-2                     GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgnutls11 1.0.16-14                    GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-erro 1.2-1                        library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0 2.8.16-1                     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkhtml3 3.8.1-1.1                    HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii  libice6     6.9.0.dfsg.1-6               Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62   6b-12                        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkrb53    1.4.3-6                      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2    2.1.30-13                    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libnspr4    2:1.7.12-1.1                 Netscape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3     2:1.7.12-1.1                 Network Security Service Libraries
ii  liborbit2   1:2.14.0-1                   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0 1.12.0-2                     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpisock8  0.11.8-21                    Library for communicating with a P
ii  libpisync0  0.11.8-21                    Synchronization library for PalmOS
ii  libpng12-0  1.2.8rel-5.1                 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0    1.7-5                        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6      6.9.0.dfsg.1-6               X Window System Session Management
ii  libsoup2.2- 2.2.91-2                     an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libtasn1-2  0.2.17-1                     Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6    6.9.0.dfsg.1-6               X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxcursor1 1.1.3-1                      X cursor management library
ii  libxext6    6.9.0.dfsg.1-6               X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6      6.9.0.dfsg.1-6               X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6               X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2     2.6.23.dfsg.2-3              GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2  6.9.0.dfsg.1-6               X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1                  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g      1:1.2.3-11                   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  evolution-plugins           2.4.2.1-2    All bundled plugins for Evolution
ii  gnome-desktop-data          2.14.0-1     Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
pn  gnome-pilot-conduits        <none>       (no description available)
ii  mozilla-psm                 2:1.7.12-1.1 The Mozilla Internet application s
ii  spamassassin                3.1.0a-2     Perl-based spam filter using text 

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