17 Nov
2012
17 Nov
'12
10:54 a.m.
When viewing an email there is a blue box in the top right corner of the window. On my
system the date is offset ahead by one hour.
The likely explanation is kmail has not been updated to the newer DST period. (Why would
kmail use an internal calendar rather than a system calender?)
Only people affected by the DST nonsense are likely to see this bug.
Would somebody please confirm?
Darrell
17 Nov
17 Nov
11:07 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Date bug in kmail?
On Saturday 17 of November 2012 19:54:13 Darrell Anderson wrote:
When viewing an email there is a blue box in the top
right corner of the
window. On my system the date is offset ahead by one hour.
The likely explanation is kmail has not been updated to the newer DST
period. (Why would kmail use an internal calendar rather than a system
calender?)
Only people affected by the DST nonsense are likely to see this bug.
Would somebody please confirm?
Darrell
In header of your mail I see:
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:54:13 -0800 (PST)
My timezone is now +0100. And in blue box I see time offset 9 hours behind my
local time. That seems to be correct.
Slavek
--
11:17 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Date bug in kmail?
In header of your mail I see:
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:54:13 -0800 (PST)
My timezone is now +0100. And in blue box I see time offset
9 hours behind my local time. That seems to be correct.
I don't use kmail for this mail list. I use webmail. I have no idea where the server
is located for these mails.
Regardless, the blue box time is incorrect. The time should be the same as the system. I
use local time and not universal time on my system. Therefore the blue box should display
the same time as everything else. The kmail blue box clock does not match the clock applet
in my kicker panel.
Darrell
11:42 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Date bug in kmail?
When viewing an email there is a blue box in the top
right corner of the window. On my system the
date is offset ahead by one hour.
The likely explanation is kmail has not been updated to the newer DST period. (Why would
kmail use an internal calendar
rather than a system calender?)
Only people affected by the DST nonsense are likely to see this bug.
Would somebody please confirm?
The code for the box display is in tdepim/kmail/headerstyle.cpp. I'm not a C++ guru
but from what I think I see, the code is pulling the date/time information from the
system. As the time in the clock applet in my kicker panel is correct, and the date
command in konsole is correct, I don't know how kmail is shifting the time by one
hour, the exact difference of the DST shift last weekend. I don't see anything obvious
in tqdatetime.h or ntqdatetime.h.
Darrell
1:25 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Date bug in kmail?
When viewing
an email there is a blue box in the top right corner of the window. On my system the
date is offset ahead by one hour.
The likely explanation is kmail has not been updated to the newer DST period. (Why would
kmail use an internal calendar
rather than a system calender?)
Only people affected by the DST nonsense are likely to see this bug.
Would somebody please confirm?
The code for the box display is in tdepim/kmail/headerstyle.cpp. I'm not a C++ guru
but from
what I think I see, the code is pulling the date/time information from the system. As the
time in the clock applet
in my kicker panel is correct, and the date command in konsole is correct, I don't
know how kmail is shifting the
time by one hour, the exact difference of the DST shift last weekend. I don't see
anything obvious in tqdatetime.h or
ntqdatetime.h. 
1:33 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Date bug in kmail?
When viewing an email there is a blue box in the top
right corner of
the window. On my system the
date is offset ahead by one hour.
The likely explanation is kmail has not been updated to the newer DST
period. (Why
would kmail use an internal calendar
rather than a system calender?)
Only people affected by the DST nonsense are likely to see this bug.
Would somebody please confirm?
The code for the box display is in tdepim/kmail/headerstyle.cpp. I'm not
a C++ guru but from
what I think I see, the code is pulling the date/time information from
the system. As the time in the clock applet
in my kicker panel is correct, and the date command in konsole is
correct, I don't know how kmail is shifting the
time by one hour, the exact difference of the DST shift last weekend. I
don't see anything obvious in tqdatetime.h or
ntqdatetime.h.
1:48 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Date bug in kmail?
The box is also messed up even further in that it is
not updated if the
Email is left up on the screen; the Email has to be reloaded in order to
update the "Now" box with the current date/time of the sender. It also
has a tendency to truncate text if the date string grows too long.
I don't remember exactly when/where this "feature" was introduced, but I
am pretty sure it was either from OpenSUSE or the kdepim enterprise
branch. Someone had half a good idea but didn't implement it correctly.
:-)
I will file a bug report with all observations. I will create a patch for the text string
"Now:" and attach to the bug report. Actually, I think I'll push the patch
to GIT and mention the commit in the bug report. At least the text no longer will mislead
users about the purpose.
I remember the patch from a long time ago when I started using Trinity because the box is
not part of 3.5.10. The patch is from the old Chakra distro, commit d8b40941, 2010-09-07:
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdepim/commit/kmail/headerstyle.cpp?id=d…
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