Calendar preview reports the wrong date for meetings

[Lee Maguire]

Binary package hint: evolution

I receive an ics calendar attachment in email, the inline preview claims it is for a meeting tomorrow (Wednesday), but when I add it to my calendar it is for Friday.

The DTSTART and DEND fields in the ics are for Friday, so there appears to be a bug in the inline email preview.

Attached is an ics file for an event scheduled for 2008-02-01, and how it appears in my email on 2008-01-29 - suggesting the event is on 2008-01-30.

Running 2.21.5-0ubuntu1 under hardy (preview).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 29 12:58:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.21.5-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcCwd: /home/lee
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux zoidberg 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Lee Maguire (leemaguire)]

If I load up the mail today, it shows the correct event date as "Friday, February 1". It appears the problem is/was with whatever function interprets the date into "Tomorrow" etc.

[Lee Maguire (leemaguire)]

On Thursday, the date was given as "Friday" rather than "Tomorrow". The event today is given as "Today".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514989

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

change status to fix released (see gnome bug)