Package: evolution-data-server-common Version: 1.6.3-4 I noticed last night that an alert I have set to go off at 10PM went of at 11PM instead. I looked at my calendar in Evolution and saw that the red line indicating the current time was an hour earlier than the time everywhere else on my system. I live in the U.S. central time zone, which is represented as "US/Central", "America/Chicago" (among others), and "CST6CDT" in regular zoneinfo file distributions.
The rules for which day each year daylight saving time is activated were
changed about a year ago for my region, and the changes became effective
this month.
I shortly tracked down my problem to be an outdated vCalendar
file: /usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.6/zoneinfo/America/Chicago.ics
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Ximian//NONSGML Evolution Olson-VTIMEZONE
Converter//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:/softwarestudio.org/Olson_20011030_5/America/Chicago
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:19701025T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:19700405T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
END:VCALENDAR
As a quick fix, I modified the RRULE lines so they read, respectively:
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
and
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
Of course, this could screw up looking back in time to previous years,
though I'm not sure how critical that is for the Evolution calendar. If
vCalendar files can represent the history of time zone changes as well
as regular zoneinfo files can, I'd like to see historical info in there
too. That'd help with future changes too, so then a file containing
info on when the future change takes effect could be distributed almost
as soon as the law gets passed.
Of course, I'd *really* prefer if the calendar just used the system's
time zone settings, or at least had a way to use the existing system
zoneinfo files as templates to recreate the vCalendar time zone files
used by Evolution whenever it's necessary.
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
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ii evolution 2.6.3-6 groupware suite with mail
client and organizer
ii evolution-common 2.6.3-6 architecture independent
files for Evolution
ii evolution-data-server 1.6.3-4 evolution database backend
server
ii evolution-data-server-common 1.6.3-4 architecture independent
files for Evolution D
ii evolution-plugins 2.6.3-6 standard plugins for Evolution
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Mike Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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