Strange choice of "system timezone" as default
Bug #1021829 reported by
Marc D.
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
evolution uses something called "system timezone" per default. This appears to be the timezone defined by /etc/localtime.
This is odd, and entirely different from all other software, that uses $TZ, and only looks at /etc/localtime as a fallback.
Explanation: I use UTC for /etc/localtime, because logs, statistics etc. should be recorded in UTC (being a monotonic timescale).
"Local time" is only for users, so I set the TZ environment variable at login time. This works fine with GNOME, all CLI programs, Firefox etc. Evolution seems to be the only exception.
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