Hello Ben, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> skribis:
> Ben Sturmfels <[email protected]> skribis: > >> I've downloaded the source with `guix build --source >> evolution-data-server`, extracted and found the the function >> "e_cal_util_get_system_timezone()" at src/calendar/libecal/e-cal-util.c:1507 >> which calls down to "system_timezone_find()" in e-cal-system-timezone.c:522 >> where it looks up the timezone and compares it to a list of valid zones. > > Looking more closely, ‘system_timezone_find’ first tries to see if > /etc/localtime is a symlink and if yes reads its target (but it’s never > a symlink, AFAIK), and later on tries to compare /etc/localtime to files > found under ‘SYSTEM_ZONEINFODIR’. > > Problem is: > > #define SYSTEM_ZONEINFODIR "/usr/share/zoneinfo" > > So probably, if you substitute “/usr/” with the prefix of the ‘tzdata’ > package, it’ll work much better. :-) Did you have a chance to look into it? Thanks, Ludo’.
