Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:46:02 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Mike Patterson <mpatters@cs.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/55409: evolution-1.4.{3,4} display incorrect timestamps Message-ID: <1061235961.730.70.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <200308181810.h7IIADCY076346@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200308181810.h7IIADCY076346@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--=-zEz5GWEKzivkB1xFMjHs Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 GNAT= S. >=20 > From: Mike Patterson <mpatters@cs.uwaterloo.ca> > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, markhannon@optusnet.com.au > Cc: =20 > Subject: Re: ports/55409: evolution-1.4.{3,4} display incorrect timestamp= s > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:07:00 +0000 >=20 > 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) > =20 > 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. > =20 > 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. > =20 > 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. ;) > =20 > Anyway, hope this helps. > =20 > 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 > =20 > Mike > =20 > --=20 > Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up.=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-zEz5GWEKzivkB1xFMjHs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/QSz5b2iPiv4Uz4cRAqOiAJwN8q4JEzLOibYjgblmBZFPVXHydgCfeGVB HjhhoQrRNMcu+CiZmjgDbX0= =qFuk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zEz5GWEKzivkB1xFMjHs--
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