ports/55409: evolution-1.4.{3,4} display incorrect timestamps

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 14:10, Mike Patterson wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/55409; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Mike Patterson <mpatters at cs.uwaterloo.ca>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, markhannon at optusnet.com.au
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: ports/55409: evolution-1.4.{3,4} display incorrect timestamps
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:07:00 +0000
> 
>  I saw this come up in the gnome discussion list, and I have a screenshot
>  to show off: http://comrie.uwaterloo.ca/evo-dateshot.png  (names & email
>  addresses elided to protect the guilty)
>  
>  Notes:
>  1) the machine I run evolution on is in EDT (GMT-0400)
>  2) its hardware clock is set to GMT
>  3) its timezone is set to Eastern
>  4) the machine that particular mail was sent from is also in the Eastern
>  time zone (it sits about 50 feet from me, as a matter of fact)
>  5) the email was actually sent at 05:25 wall clock time.
>  
>  I'm not familiar with the actual names of the panes, but you can see
>  that in the mail picker, it displays GMT, whilst in the headers of the
>  message in the message preview pane, it displays the full date and time
>  with the offset.
>  
>  If I reply to a message, it claims they wrote it at whatever time they
>  actually did, except it shows; ie, a reply to that message starts off
>  with: "On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 09:25, Super-User wrote:" which is,
>  strictly speaking, correct, but misleading.  ;)
>  
>  Anyway, hope this helps.
>  
>  For what it's worth, I find that sometimes exiting and restarting evo
>  seems to help.  I don't know if this is a FreeBSD-port-bug, or an evo
>  bug that should be filed with Ximian.

I have no idea either since this problem has never afflicted me.  I
don't know where I would look to develop a patch.  Can you file this
with Ximian, and see what they say?  Perhaps they can give me a clue as
to where to look if this is a FreeBSD problem.

Joe

>  
>  Mike
>  
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