Re: kontact-egroupware interaction: appointments shifting by 1 hour

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:29:31 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday 17 February 2011 14:44:53 George Avrunin wrote:
> > My department uses eGroupware (now community version 1.8) for some
> > administrative calendars.  I can interact with it through the web, of
> > course, but I'm using kontact/korganizer for my own calendar and I
> > prefer to use that interface.  Kontact talks to eGroupware through
> > groupdav.  I am using kdepim-4.4.10-1.fc14.x86_64, on Fedora 14.  This
> > happens both on my laptop and by desktop.
> > 
> > Events entered in eGroupware show up correctly in kontact.  But if I
> > enter an event in kontact, it seems to be fine until kontact updates
> > the groupdav data and then it shifts to a time an hour earlier.  This
> > happened with egroupware 1.603 hosted on a Fedora 14 machine and now
> > with 1.8 hosted on a CentOS machine.  All machines are in the same time
> > zone.
> > 
> > I'd be grateful for any ideas about solving this--as you can imagine,
> > it can cause some embarrassing scheduling problems (though I guess it
> > would be worse if the appointments got shifted an hour later).  If
> > there is more information I can provide, let me know.
> > 
> I saw similar problems some time back.  I discovered that it was caused
> by some systems not being set at bios level to use UTC clock.  HTH
> 
> Anne

Thanks for the suggestion.  It took me a couple of days to get the staff to
tell me what the server's clock is set to, but both machines have the
system clock on UTC.  So that's not the problem.

  George

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