Evolution 1.4 Date Time Trouble

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:28, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Bob Van Valzah <Bob at VanValzah.Com>
> > Date: 19 Jun 2003 14:16:24 +0000
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> > 
> > I find that Evolution 1.4 doesn't seem to know what time zone I'm in. 
> > (Yes, I'm certain that my clock and timezone are set correctly.)  I see
> > that others have recently reported similar problems here.  The advice of
> > updating to 1.4.0_1 hasn't worked for me.
> > 
> > I've looked back through my Sent folder and I see something
> > interesting.  The correct offset from GMT was given while I used Evo
> > 1.2.4.  It went to +0000 when I went to Evo 1.3.92.  The problem
> > continues now that I'm on 1.4.0_1.  I see these symptoms on both my
> > desktop and laptop systems that went through the same Evo source upgrade
> > path.  (Both are very recent 4.8-STABLE.)
> > 
> > Maybe this only happens to folks who tried 1.3.92 because it left
> > something behind that's confusing 1.4?  Just a wild guess since the
> > problem doesn't seem to be widespread.
> > 
> > I also note that the forward and backward navigation arrow icons in the
> > folder bar are not rendered (though the nav function is present when the
> > space is clicked).
> 
> While the upgrade to 1.4.0_1 seemed to have fixed the problem for me,
> it's now back! I am seeing times in GMT again! I almost wonder if I
> was imagining something last time when it was working.
> 
> An example:
> Header: Date:  Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:40:07 +0200
> TOC:	Today 7:40 AM

Are you looking at a message someone else sent you?

> 
> Also, all messages are stamped in the TOC with the day until 1 hour
> prior to the time I started Evolution. Messages showing a TOC
> timestamp after that only show a time.

Mail from today is shown with a time.  Mail from yesterday and previous
days are either shown as Yesterday, or with a date.

Anyone running into problems might consider testing Evo under a new,
dummy account to see if the problem is stale settings.  If it is, you
can remove your Evo settings while preserving your mailboxes, and see if
that helps.

Joe

> 
> FWIW, I can't seem to get filtering to work, either, but that is
> probably cockpit error. I will spend a bit more time reading the manual
> before I complain and, even then, it will likely be to the Ximian
> folks.
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