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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35746: Evolution calendar gets the timezone wrong
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:49 +0200
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To: Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au>
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Hello Ben,

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> 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, =E2=80=98system_timezone_find=E2=80=99 first tries =
to see if
> /etc/localtime is a symlink and if yes reads its target (but it=E2=80=99s=
 never
> a symlink, AFAIK), and later on tries to compare /etc/localtime to files
> found under =E2=80=98SYSTEM_ZONEINFODIR=E2=80=99.
>
> Problem is:
>
>   #define SYSTEM_ZONEINFODIR "/usr/share/zoneinfo"
>
> So probably, if you substitute =E2=80=9C/usr/=E2=80=9D with the prefix of=
 the =E2=80=98tzdata=E2=80=99
> package, it=E2=80=99ll work much better.  :-)

Did you have a chance to look into it?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.