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Bug 364729 - default timezone set to Africa/Algeria instead of matching the locale
default timezone set to Africa/Algeria instead of matching the locale
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-calendar-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[timezone]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-10-24 15:04 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2010-05-18 19:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-10-24 15:04:38 UTC 
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/67785

"I just looked at Evolution (considering starting to using it) and found out that the time zone was incorrectly set. I'm not living in Africa/Algeria, I'm living in Stockholm/Sweden. I haven't tampered with any options before (just selected Stockholm/Sweden in the installation).

I was using the release candidate btw.

This is just a minor bug but if it's not to difficult then I think it should be ironed out before Edgy Eft goes final."
Comment 1 Pavel Šefránek 2008-03-24 09:05:33 UTC 
Evolution does not set the default timezone. It's up to you. Closing as NOTABUG.
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2008-03-24 11:51:25 UTC 
there is a timezone selected on the dialog used to choice the local one though, this one should be the system one which is likely what the user wants
Comment 3 Pavel Šefránek 2008-03-24 15:03:50 UTC 
So then it could be a duplicate of bug 381132
Comment 4 Milan Crha 2010-03-30 18:47:00 UTC 
This probably wasn't with a google calendar, was it? There is no 100% matching of libical timezones to google timezones, thus google can transform some timezones to "the nearest" or something, resulting in a strange behaviour. I just had a chat with one user on IRC about this. Changing Evolution's timezone to some similar as Google uses fixed the issue.
Comment 5 Tobias Mueller 2010-05-15 12:51:57 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!
Comment 6 Duncan Lithgow 2010-05-18 19:10:53 UTC 
In Ubuntu 10.04 / Gnome 2.30 this is solved, please update the status.

Under 'Edit > Evolution Preferences > Calendar and Tasks > Display > Time/Date Format' the 'Time and Date' and 'Date only' settings are both set to 'Use locale default'.
Comment 7 Pavel Šefránek 2010-05-18 19:12:41 UTC 
Closed as of comment #6