timezone for Africa/Johannesburg is wrong

[Berend De Schouwer]

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution reports (in the wizard, and in the calendar) the timezone for Africa/Johannesburg as UTC +0300. This is wrong.

The system timezone (package tzdata and friends) correctly report the system timezone as UTC +0200, or SAST, on the command line, and the gnome panel.

Because the timezone data is wrong, all appointments in the calendar are wrong.

Some other African timezones appear wrong, or odd, too. Some specify UTC+ with a granularity in seconds. Africa/Gaberone is right, and works for me, but it's actually in a different country. Anyway, it should be using the system time.

(evo is currently set to use daylight-savings-time, which we don't use -- if I unset this, things go even worse.)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use?

[Berend De Schouwer (berend-de-schouwer)]

Distribution Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Not confirming, the evolution configuration dialog lists it as utc+2 on gutsy

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

per mbarners upstream, Evo (as of 2.21.4 or svn, not sure) now uses the system tzdata.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

actually as of 2.12...

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

I am closing this bug INVALID. Since 2.12, Evolution is using the system TZdata; as such, if this is still an issue, it has to be pursued on tzdata, not on Evolution; additionally, the reporter never replied again.