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ubuntu-ui-toolkit package

  1. Bug #1283236
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1283236

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Charles Kerr (charlesk) wrote :

Actually my last comment was only half right. indicator-datetime does have a bug that doesn't set the fallback timezone for EDS to use when loading events, but there is a bigger problem in qtorganizer5-eds.

So, I'm in UTC-6 and just used ubuntu-clock-app to create a one-time alarm to kick on Wed Feb 27th at 9 PM. What gets saved to tasks.ics is this:

    DTSTART:20140227T030000
    DUE:20140227T030000
    SUMMARY:Alarm

Note the lack of timezone information. That makes this a "floating" time, meaning that the alarm will kick at that specified time regardless of timezone. This is a Good Thing, since that means our M-F 6am wakeup alarms will kick at 6am even if we travel to a different timezone.

So that's the good news. The bad news, the kick time is floating at 2014-02-27 03:00:00. That means EDS being sent a VTODO that kicks at 3am no matter what timezone it's in.... and that's why indicator-datetime is showing what it's showing.