indicator-datetime shows all-day events one day too early

I don't have this issue. Seems like a localization (time format?) issue. Can anyone with the same locale as the reporter (German?) confirm this issue?

I can confirm this happening on all my Ubuntu (12.04) machines. As soon as I choose time settings for Berlin (German timezone or earlier/east), I get all events shown a day early. If I change my time settings to Greenland or farther west, the events are displayed with the correct day.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Just seen this bug. With London England birthdays were showing up a day early. Changing to rekjavik solves the problem.

It may be due to British summertime. I'll check end of this month when clocks go back to GMT

Trivial fix. Is indicator-datetime still being maintained?

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@Tom: thanks for the fix, yes it's being actively maintained ...

is there any chance you could put up a merge request for that fix? Those are usually nicer for review and increase chances that somebody picks it up for review in a reasonable timeframe (though there might be a bit of delay in the next weeks to the Ubuntu Developpers Summit and people travelling)

So, the issue here is that the appointments returned to us by EDS have a timezone associated with them.

Tom's patch is a good improvement over the current code, since most appointments are probably going to be in the local time.

It might be better, though, if we check the tz that EDS gives us, and handle the display accordingly.

So after testing use cases a bit further it looks like EDS is sees all-day events like this, and the timezone is irrelevant:

> BEGIN:VEVENT
> UID:20121026T095149Z-3681-1000-3631-132@sita
> DTSTAMP:20121026T094847Z
> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121031
> DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121101
> TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
> SEQUENCE:3
> SUMMARY:Halloween
> CLASS:PUBLIC
> CREATED:20121026T095207Z
> LAST-MODIFIED:20121026T101948Z
> END:VEVENT

Also in non-all-day events, the begin & end times coming from e_cal_client_generate_instances_sync() are already adjusted from the entry's timezone to UTC. So I don't think there's any path where we need look at the ECalComponent's dtstart/dtend times' timezones.

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 12.10.2-0ubuntu4

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indicator-datetime (12.10.2-0ubuntu4) raring; urgency=low

  * Backported r192 and r193, fix:
    - "shows all-day events one day too early" (lp: #1000182)
    - "Bogus insensitive events after clicking on different date"
       (lp: #1069177)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:23:13 +0100

Hello Frederik, or anyone else affected,

Accepted indicator-datetime into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/12.10.2-0ubuntu3.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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the update displays all day events fine for me

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This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 12.10.2-0ubuntu3.1

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indicator-datetime (12.10.2-0ubuntu3.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backported r192 and r193, fix:
    - "shows all-day events one day too early" (lp: #1000182)
    - "Bogus insensitive events after clicking on different date"
       (lp: #1069177)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:23:13 +0100

Could we have this fix ported back to 12.04 LTS.

On ubuntu 15.04, using evolution 3.16.10 pim, all contact birthdays are displayed one day too early. Several people from the evolution mailing list seem to be affected as well.

This didnt occur in ubuntu 14.04.