[Users] vcalendar timezone issue?

Darko K. darko.koruga at siol.net
Sat Apr 25 13:01:12 CEST 2015


On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:12:14 -0500 Ron Rogers Jr. wrote:

> Strangely, I'm experiencing a bug in the vcalendar plugin.  My ISP
> just switched to a different e-mail backend which now uses IMAP and
> they also give us a Calendar we can access.  Say I set a event in a
> the calendar for a specific time (like my birthday) the vcalendar
> plugin will show it starting 5 hours earlier.  For example if I set an
> event at high noon on April 30th, the event will show as starting at
> 7AM in vcalendar. And as coincidence would have it, I'm in the CDT
> time zone (Central Daylight Saving Time aka the Chicago timezone),
> UTC/GMT -5.
> 
> [CronoCloud at wutai ~]$ date +%Z%z
> CDT-0500
> 
> Maybe vcalendar is assuming remote calendars are GMT or something?
> 
Did you try building latest claws-mail from source ? It has a fix for
bug 1769.

Regards,
                 Darko



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