Subject: Re: bug#35746: Evolution calendar gets the timezone wrong

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:49 +0200

Hello Ben,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ben Sturmfels <[email-masked]> 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’.