lightning thunderbird extension does not follow system time zone settings

[Scott Sweeny]

I recently travelled to London from the eastern United States. I was able to easily change my system time zone to London using the date/time indicator however my appointments in Thunderbird (Lightning) did not update to reflect the change. I had to dig through the preferences window in Thunderbird to change Lightning's time zone.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xul-ext-lightning 1.3~b1+build1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f24bf886cf6158b8cd6d663f166fcff9
CheckboxSystem: 3935143777c965daaa64b51f0134f712
Date: Thu Mar 8 09:29:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightning-extension
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-17 (51 days ago)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

It's in universe, and not integrated into the desktop anyway (unlike Evolution), unassigning.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

Isn't TB the new default MUA in Ubuntu? I suppose (hope) that the calendar extension is included in this move?

[Colan Schwartz (colan)]

By design, this doesn't happen automatically. You have to go to Preferences -> Calendar -> General, and manually set the time zone. I'd recommend attaching the upstream bug here from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org if the feature request exists. If not, create it there and then link here so we can track it.