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

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 01:36:10 George Avrunin wrote:
> 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.
> 
There is, somewhere, a checkbox against something like "hardware clock uses 
UTC".  Unfortunately I can't remember just now where that is.  Perhaps someone 
else can help?  It's just another place to check for discrepancy.

Anne
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