Evolution 1.4 Date Time Trouble

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: 19 Jun 2003 12:35:25 -0400
> 
> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:28, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > From: Bob Van Valzah <Bob at VanValzah.Com>
> > > Date: 19 Jun 2003 14:16:24 +0000
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> > >
> > > I find that Evolution 1.4 doesn't seem to know what time zone I'm in.
> > > (Yes, I'm certain that my clock and timezone are set correctly.)  I see
> > > that others have recently reported similar problems here.  The advice of
> > > updating to 1.4.0_1 hasn't worked for me.
> > >
> > > I've looked back through my Sent folder and I see something
> > > interesting.  The correct offset from GMT was given while I used Evo
> > > 1.2.4.  It went to +0000 when I went to Evo 1.3.92.  The problem
> > > continues now that I'm on 1.4.0_1.  I see these symptoms on both my
> > > desktop and laptop systems that went through the same Evo source upgrade
> > > path.  (Both are very recent 4.8-STABLE.)
> > >
> > > Maybe this only happens to folks who tried 1.3.92 because it left
> > > something behind that's confusing 1.4?  Just a wild guess since the
> > > problem doesn't seem to be widespread.
> > >
> > > I also note that the forward and backward navigation arrow icons in the
> > > folder bar are not rendered (though the nav function is present when th=
> e
> > > space is clicked).
> >
> > While the upgrade to 1.4.0_1 seemed to have fixed the problem for me,
> > it's now back! I am seeing times in GMT again! I almost wonder if I
> > was imagining something last time when it was working.
> >
> > An example:
> > Header: Date:  Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:40:07 +0200
> > TOC:	Today 7:40 AM
> 
> Are you looking at a message someone else sent you?

Yes. (Actually, thousands of them.)

> > Also, all messages are stamped in the TOC with the day until 1 hour
> > prior to the time I started Evolution. Messages showing a TOC
> > timestamp after that only show a time.
> 
> Mail from today is shown with a time.  Mail from yesterday and previous
> days are either shown as Yesterday, or with a date.

But mail that is stamped more than one hour before I start evolution is
dated "Today". Mail in the last hour and in the future (due to the
time zone problem) has only the time.

> Anyone running into problems might consider testing Evo under a new,
> dummy account to see if the problem is stale settings.  If it is, you
> can remove your Evo settings while preserving your mailboxes, and see if
> that helps.

I just blew away all of my evolution configuration, re-started
evolution, ran through the druid, and see no difference. The timestamps
still show UTC in the TOC. I'm running out of ideas.

I removed the following: ~/evolution/*, ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution,
and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution. IS there something else I should have
gotten rid of?
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634