Bug 55409 - evolution-1.4.{3,4} display incorrect timestamps
Summary: evolution-1.4.{3,4} display incorrect timestamps
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-gnome (Nobody)
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Reported: 2003-08-09 06:10 UTC by Mark Hannon
Modified: 2003-08-27 17:46 UTC (History)
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Description Mark Hannon 2003-08-09 06:10:14 UTC
Evolution 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 have both exhibited a bug where the 'Date'
field in the message lists is wrong by the number of hours to GMT.

I am in AEST which is GMT+10 hours.

In evolution I had chosen my timezone and Australia/Melbourne.

I am running localtime and adjkernel is running.

Fix: 

By choosing timezone England/London (ie GMT) the time is displayed
correctly.
Comment 1 Kirill Ponomarev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-08-09 06:43:07 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->gnome

Over to maintainer.
Comment 2 Joe Marcus Clarke freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-08-09 08:40:25 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Can you provide a visual example?  The Date field in Evo is always that of the 
sender of the message.  In my case, I have never had a problem with the date 
being inaccurate, and I use EST [GMT -0500] (currently EDT [GMT -0400]).
Comment 3 Mike 2003-08-18 19:07:00 UTC
I saw this come up in the gnome discussion list, and I have a screenshot
to show off: http://comrie.uwaterloo.ca/evo-dateshot.png  (names & email
addresses elided to protect the guilty)

Notes:
1) the machine I run evolution on is in EDT (GMT-0400)
2) its hardware clock is set to GMT
3) its timezone is set to Eastern
4) the machine that particular mail was sent from is also in the Eastern
time zone (it sits about 50 feet from me, as a matter of fact)
5) the email was actually sent at 05:25 wall clock time.

I'm not familiar with the actual names of the panes, but you can see
that in the mail picker, it displays GMT, whilst in the headers of the
message in the message preview pane, it displays the full date and time
with the offset.

If I reply to a message, it claims they wrote it at whatever time they
actually did, except it shows; ie, a reply to that message starts off
with: "On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 09:25, Super-User wrote:" which is,
strictly speaking, correct, but misleading.  ;)

Anyway, hope this helps.

For what it's worth, I find that sometimes exiting and restarting evo
seems to help.  I don't know if this is a FreeBSD-port-bug, or an evo
bug that should be filed with Ximian.

Mike

-- 
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up.
Comment 4 Joe Marcus Clarke freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-08-27 17:46:02 UTC
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

This is now fixed in Evo 1.4.4_1.