#175 full-time appointments are shifted

[Sebastian]

Situation:
PDA: Windows Mobile 5
Time zone: GMT+1
Time zone visit: GMT+1
PC: Evolution
Time zone: GMT+1

Problem:
When I sync an full-time appointment or an contact (birthday) from my PDA to my PC the dates are shifted about one day. There are no problems with appointments with times and with the start and end dates of tasks. The problem doesn't appear, when I sync from my PC to my PDA.
I think that it is an problem with the time zones. I set the time zone of the pda to GMT-8 for testing. All times were shifted about 9 hours, but the full-time appointments were synchronized correctly. Is it possible that synce doesn't consider the time zone when syncing full-time appointments and contacts?

[BlueMoon75]

Hello,
as I have the same problem I have played a little with the time zone settings as well as the daylight-saving time. But any change to these settings results in a wrong displaying of the normal appointments. So I have tried the following:
First I made an all day event on 2009-07-02 in WM5 and synchronized it; the event is shown in evolution on 2009-07-01. I saved the appointment:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Ximian//NONSGML Evolution Calendar//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
TRANSP:OPAQUE
LAST-MODIFIED:20090702T200907Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090702
LOCATION:Office
SUMMARY:Test
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for DESCRIPTION
property. Removing entire property:
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for CATEGORIES
property. Removing entire property:
UID:20090702T200907Z-7014-1000-1-635@violetmoon
DTSTAMP:20090702T200907Z
CREATED:20090702T200907Z
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION;RELATED=START:-P1D
ACTION:DISPLAY
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for DESCRIPTION
property. Removing entire property:
X-EVOLUTION-ALARM-UID:20090702T200907Z-7014-1000-1-636@violetmoon
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Then I drag-and-droped the all day event manually from 2009-07-01 to 2009-07-02 in evolution and synchronized again: now in WM5 as well as evolution the all day event is shown correctly. Now there are two keywords more (SEQUENCE and DESCRIPTION) and the date is changed, but it is still displayed correctly in WM5:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Ximian//NONSGML Evolution Calendar//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
TRANSP:OPAQUE
LAST-MODIFIED:20090702T201050Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090703
LOCATION:Office
SUMMARY:Test
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for DESCRIPTION
property. Removing entire property:
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for CATEGORIES
property. Removing entire property:
UID:20090702T200907Z-7014-1000-1-635@violetmoon
DTSTAMP:20090702T200907Z
CREATED:20090702T200907Z
SEQUENCE:1
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION;RELATED=START:-P1D
ACTION:DISPLAY
X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for DESCRIPTION
property. Removing entire property:
X-EVOLUTION-ALARM-UID:20090702T200907Z-7014-1000-1-636@violetmoon
DESCRIPTION:Test
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Perhaps this may help you to help us ;-)??

Many thanks in advance

BlueMoon75

[Mark Ellis]

patch to enable timezone

[Mark Ellis]

Can you try with the attached patch ? If you have problems with where to apply it, please shout.

[Mark Ellis]

Anybody tried the patch ?