Okay. I just created three events at tomorrow 10:00 CEST (08:00 UTC), on three different accounts on the very same Debian Lenny machine. All three use nxclient to log into KDE 3, with Kontact/KDEPIM Version 1.2.9 (enterprise35 20131030.a834355).
Then, I looked at the event invitations (METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT) in a simple eMail program (alpine). What I got made me beg to differ:
$ fgrep -e DTSTAMP -e CREATED -e UID -e LAST-MODIFIED -e SUMMARY -e DTSTART -e DTEND s?
s2:DTSTAMP:20140812T114542Z
s2:CREATED:20140812T114541Z
s2:UID:libkcal-1345193151.365
s2:LAST-MODIFIED:20140812T114541Z
s2:SUMMARY:sk2
s2:DTSTART:20140813T080000Z
s2:DTEND:20140813T100000Z
s3:DTSTAMP:20140812T134551Z
s3:CREATED:20140812T134550Z
s3:UID:libkcal-579827798.725
s3:LAST-MODIFIED:20140812T134550Z
s3:SUMMARY:sk3
s3:DTSTART:20140813T100000Z
s3:DTEND:20140813T120000Z
s4:DTSTAMP:20140812T134559Z
s4:CREATED:20140812T134558Z
s4:UID:libkcal-743876151.470
s4:LAST-MODIFIED:20140812T134558Z
s4:SUMMARY:sk4
s4:DTSTART:20140813T100000Z
s4:DTEND:20140813T120000Z
I should mention that I created the events at roughly 13:45 CEST today (11:45 UTC), and the system timezone on the box as well as the “Time & Date” zone in the Kontact settings are all “Europe/Berlin”.
To add insult to injury: the calendar view on the accounts that created the event all do show it for tomorrow, 10:00 local time.
I cannot possibly imagine how this could go wrong, seeing as those are all on the same machine…
WTF is going on here?
Update: .kde/share/config/korganizerrc had TimeZoneId wrong. I had to change a different timezone (such as Europe/Bratislava), hit the OK button, confirm to “Keep Times”, then re-open the settings dialogue and change back to Europe/Berlin, for it to work.
