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Add support for zoneinfo timezone data
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CLOSED: FIXED
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enhancement

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Description Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2008-04-06 18:07:20 CEST
Hi,

I know you're aware of the problem, but I'm adding this so it's not lost. A Debian user asked if it was possible for orage to support system timezone data instead of shipping its. This is valid for a lot of good reasons, so I'm adding this bug.

Thanks for the work, keep going!

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis
Comment 1 juha editbugs 2008-04-06 21:45:27 CEST
Yes, I 100% agree. Several good reasons to do this; 
one of which is to be able to fix  Bug 3876.
It just is not easy.
Comment 2 Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2008-04-06 21:55:24 CEST
(In reply to comment #1)
> Yes, I 100% agree. Several good reasons to do this; 
> one of which is to be able to fix  Bug 3876.
> It just is not easy.
> 

Maybe tzfile(5) manpage could help you? (the debian reporter pointed this manpage)

Cheers,
Comment 3 juha editbugs 2009-01-24 11:51:03 CET
*** Bug 4848 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 juha editbugs 2009-01-24 11:56:27 CET
*** Bug 3834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2009-03-07 17:24:04 CET
Any news on this?
Comment 6 juha editbugs 2009-03-07 17:36:59 CET
I have coded conversion program, which reads os tz timezone data and outputs 
libical timezone data. It has been tested and is waiting that we can again start
using trunk after the 4.6....

Currently the conversion process is manual. I am not sure if it is worth
automating or if it is good enough that people can run it when needed (=when
tz data changes).

I am planning to create better timezone selection library function, which will
then fix 3876. That will take some time.
Comment 7 Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2009-03-07 17:48:16 CET
Thanks! (I guess you can start breaking trunk, if 4.6 is the stable branch :) )
Comment 8 juha editbugs 2009-09-06 19:29:13 CEST
This is finally done in git Orage 4.7.4.

There is now conversion utility (tz_convert) which can change data from system
timezone files to ical format, which is used i Orage.

So the support is not realtime, but Orage now supports zoneinfo data.
Comment 9 juha editbugs 2011-01-18 14:06:38 CET
in 4.8.0

Bug #3990

Reported by:
Yves-Alexis Perez
Reported on: 2008-04-06
Last modified on: 2011-01-18
Duplicates (2):
  • 3834 Time zone database incorrect
  • 4848 Can't set timezone to America/Toronto

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