Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] dtcm and DST

2016-01-18 Thread Edmond Orignac
I have found the origin of the problem with dtcm. It is not caused by a bug in rpc.cmsd or the csa library but by the particular value of the TZ variable. Starting dtcm with TZ=Europe/Paris /usr/dt/bin/dtcm does not produce the incorrect shift of the start time of the recurring event at the dat

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] dtcm and DST

2016-01-16 Thread Edmond Orignac
I agree that storing the time of a given event in UTC as is done in the XAPIA format and in the callog file under /var/spool/calendar is going to create ambiguities with recurring events that cross a DST change. The program is forced to make assumptions about what the user wants, i.e. whether th

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] dtcm and DST

2016-01-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
IMO, the problem has always been that (AFAIK) time zones were not recorded when scheduling an event. That means that if the event is seen by people in other time zones, it cannot be presented accurately - an event should be scheduled in some particular time zone, adjusted as needed to UTC (an a

[cdesktopenv-devel] dtcm and DST

2016-01-14 Thread Edmond Orignac
I have noticed a problem with recurring events in dtcm. I have created a weekly event "Séminaire" every Monday at 11am. For the month of March, I notice that the event will start at 11am except on March 14 and March 21 when it will start at 12am instead of 11am. (see the PNG in attachment) For t