Bug 111951 – kmail/korganizer: Places appointment at wrong time (time zone problem?)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Jakob Schiotz 2005-11-09 02:15:58 UTC]

When I get appointments sent by outlook (see attachment), kmail displays the
time one hour too early, causing much merriment about Linux users when I show up
:-)  See the url for a screenshot.  

The timezone in the appointment is GMT+01:00, my timezone according to date is
CET which is equivalent:

demokrit ~ # date
Wed Nov  9 10:44:48 CET 2005
demokrit ~ # ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 37 Aug  2 11:40 /etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Copenhagen

The outlook user has his timezone set to a wrong city in Europe, but still
within the same time zone, so it should not matter.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a mail from a Microsoft Outlook user with an appointment.
2. Look at the appointment as presented by kmail
3. Click accept.

Actual Results:  
The appointment is shown one hour early in kmail
The appointment is entered into korganizer one hour early.



# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/
ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="dk"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage-marving"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X Xaw3d acpi alsa atlas avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dga
dvd eds emacs emboss encode fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif
gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal
kdexdeltas libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mime motif mozilla mp3 mpeg
mule ncurses netcdf nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl
plotutils png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline real scanner sdl smime spell
sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts
udev usb vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_dk
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Jakob Schiotz 2005-11-09 02:16:27 UTC]

Created attachment 72481 [details]
The appointment file.

[Comment 2 Jakob Schiotz 2005-11-09 02:30:43 UTC]

Created attachment 72483 [details]
The mail causing the problem

Oops, I had only attached a part of the message.  Here is the whole mail
instead.

[Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-11-09 02:48:18 UTC]

Several similar problems were reported at bugs.kde.org, see for instance: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68345 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84329 
 
so the best thing to do is probably to comment on one of those bugs or to open 
a new one at http://bugs.kde.org.