3990 – Add support for zoneinfo timezone data

Add support for zoneinfo timezone data

Status:

CLOSED: FIXED

Priority:
Medium

Severity:
enhancement

Product:
Orage

Component:

general

Comments

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

People

Assignee:
juha

CC List:
2 users

Version

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unspecified

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