Bug 233155 - KOrganizer/Kontact uses out-of-date timezone information
Summary: KOrganizer/Kontact uses out-of-date timezone information
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdepim
Version: 6
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-20 18:06 UTC by Rich Ibbotson
Modified: 2008-05-06 19:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 19:23:19 UTC
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Description Rich Ibbotson 2007-03-20 18:06:57 UTC
Description of problem:
Meeting invitations sent using KOrganizer to Outlook users (or received from
Outlook users) do not reflect the recent change in daylight savings time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdepim-3.5.6-0.2.fc6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Kontact, configure the current time zone to be America/New_York.
2. Have someone using a different calendar program send you a meeting invitation.
3. Accept said invitation using Kontact.
4. Note that the meeting time is one hour later than it is supposed to be.
  
Actual results:
Meeting invite is imported as if the current time zone is EST.

Expected results:
Meeting invite should be imported using EDT.

Additional info:
I believe this is due to incorrect timezone information in the ics files
installed by kdepim.  There is a very long description of the related libical
problem here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301363 (see, for
example, comment #53)

Note that the file /usr/share/apps/libical/zoneinfo/America/New_York.ics
contains RRULE entries that show daylight savings time as beginning the first
Sunday of April, rather than the second Sunday in March (if I understand the
syntax of this file, that is):

BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
...
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:36:18 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 19:23:18 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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