"Unknown timezones" error dialog shows after each reload
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(Calendar :: General, defect)
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(Reporter: mikuji, Unassigned)
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(Depends on 1 open bug)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090803 Fedora/3.5.2-2.fc11 Firefox/3.5.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3 At every calendar refresh, i have the message : "Timezone Errors See Error Console: Unknown timezones are treated as the 'floating' local timezone." Error Console, many many : Erreur : Unknown timezone "ECT" in "[...]". Treated as 'floating' local timezone instead: 26/09/2007 09:30 BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=ECT:20090903T094018 SUMMARY: [...] RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20070927T220000Z;INTERVAL=2 DTSTART;TZID=ECT:20070926T093000 DTEND;TZID=ECT:20070926T110000 DESCRIPTION: [...] LOCATION:[...] X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for UID property. Removing entire property: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR All events/tasks are ok (only local timezone) : is it possible to disable the message ? Reproducible: Always
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Updated•15 years ago
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Comment 1•15 years ago
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> All events/tasks are ok (only local timezone) : is it possible to disable the > message ? At the moment this is not possible, but we could use Thunderbird's Activity Manager in the future to present error/warning message in a prominent but undisturbing way. Also see bug 472483 for further information and development.
Comment 2•13 years ago
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I am experiencing this problem with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 connecting to a Microsoft Exchange server via EWS with DavMail 3.9.3-1750. The problem doesn't occur when DavMail connects to the Exchange server via WebDAV/OWA instead.
Comment 3•13 years ago
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Problem also occurs on Thunderbird 6.0.2 with Lightning 1.0b5.
every time my 30Boxes.com calendar is synced this notification displays, is there still no about:config setting to at least disable the notifications?
Updated•12 years ago
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Here's an example of one of the errors that floods my console as well: Timestamp: 9/27/2012 12:33:25 PM Error: Unknown timezone "US/Eastern" in "Invite from Sherry: PXY Strong Museum". Treated as 'floating' local timezone instead: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:00 PM BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120927T123329 UID:X-30Boxes-67202674 SUMMARY:Invite from Sherry: PXY Strong Museum DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20090415T130000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20090415T130000 X-LIC-ERROR;X-LIC-ERRORTYPE=VALUE-PARSE-ERROR:No value for LOCATION proper ty. Removing entire property: URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-04-15 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR Unfortunately the longest period of time that I can sync this calendar is 60 minutes, so once an hour my system starts churning while Thunderbird's console floods with errors and it slowly displays an error message pop-up. Thunderbird 15.0.1 Lightning 1.7 My timezone is set to: America/New York In the ICS file, this event looks like this: BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//83 Degrees Inc//30 Boxes//EN X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Travis's 30 Boxes VERSION:2.0 (...etc...) BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Invite from Sherry: PXY Strong Museum DESCRIPTION: LOCATION: DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20090415T130000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20090415T130000 DTSTAMP:20120927T125758 UID:X-30Boxes-67202674 URL:http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=highlightDate&date=2009-04-15 END:VEVENT (...etc...) END:VCALENDAR Let me know if there's any other debugging info or anything that I can do to help!
Comment 6•12 years ago
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There is nothing Lightning can do, the calendar is just invalid. Your calendar references a timezone "US/Eastern" but doesn't provide it's definition. You need to fix your calendar to provide the timezone definition for "US/Eastern". Another workaround might be to edit the event in Lightning and change the timezone to one of Lightnings built-in timezones. In this case Lightning will add its timezone definition to the calendar.
As a user, it would be at least useful if there was a way to turn those errors off. Since it defaults to my local settings anyways, it has no effect for me on the accuracy of the events that it imports from the iCal/CalDAV/ICS/webcal location. These events are from a url that I subscribe to, so it's read only and I can't edit its events. Even if I could edit, I'd imagine that they would be reset after the next time it was refreshed. So what I'd like to see Thunderbird/Lightning do: * either ignore these errors by default (make them warnings?) or provide an option to not display these errors (either globally or for a given calendar) * or allow alternate iCal VTIMEZONE TZIDs to be entered into an about:config entry * and/or at least provide an option beyond refreshing a calendar every 60 minutes (ideally just let me specify how many minutes, but maybe options like "Daily" or "Upon Application Launch" would be useful) Let me know if I should file a separate bug for that last one. I'm just trying to think of things I could do to not have that distracting (and in this case, pointless) error displayed every hour. Also, FWIW, I ran the ICS file through this validator and it passed validation: http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/?url= "Congratulations; your calendar validated!" I did some googling to see where "US/Eastern" may have come from... I dug into the RFC2445 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445) it mentions this: Note: This document does not define a naming convention for time zone identifiers. Implementers may want to use the naming conventions defined in existing time zone specifications such as the public-domain Olson database [TZ]. The specification of globally unique time zone identifiers is not addressed by this document and is left for future study. With this footnote: [TZ] Olson, A.D., et al, Time zone code and data, ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/, updated periodically. That ftp site appears to be down, but I believe I have found a mirror, and inside this file: ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz/tzdata93b.tar.Z In northamerica (line # 108): # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone US/Eastern -5:00 US E%sT
Comment 8•12 years ago
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You could set the reload interval to 'manually' for this calendar. Lightning uses the time zone database <https://www.iana.org/time-zones/>, previously known as Olson database. As defined in the database the timezones are named like <Country>/<City>. According to the current release the name "US/Eastern" was removed in 1993.
(In reply to Stefan Sitter from comment #8) > You could set the reload interval to 'manually' for this calendar. That's not a bad idea. I wonder if I could pass in some kind of command line params to refresh it, in a sense refereshing it every time I launch Thunderbird. I'll look into how the "Cache" behavior works and how long that works, maybe I can tweak that. Thanks. > Lightning uses the time zone database <https://www.iana.org/time-zones/>, > previously known as Olson database. As defined in the database the timezones > are named like <Country>/<City>. According to the current release the name > "US/Eastern" was removed in 1993. Oh, good to know, thanks again.
Comment 10•4 years ago
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Worst part? You don't even know which program is giving the error. I was lucky to find it here:
https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/de/file/default/calendar/chrome/calendar/calendar.properties
Maybe needs some sort of title bar?
Comment 11•4 years ago
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By the way I'm not in US/Eastern and getting the error (Europe/Berlin)
Comment 12•3 years ago
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Hi,
- I like to have my GUI in English (I prefer that to wrong/bad/half-translations).
- I like to have my weeks starting on Mondays in my calendar.
In multiple forums, I was advised to use en_DK as a locale (when launching "thunderbid").
I did this and it was working for a few years. But for a few weeks now (ThB 68.10.0 -64-bit) I now get the annoying message referred in this thread.
Is there any solution (replacement for en_DK)? We might be numerous interrested.
Comment 13•3 years ago
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(In reply to laz.brannigan from comment #11)
By the way I'm not in US/Eastern and getting the error (Europe/Berlin)
Funny that I'm finding my own comment 2 years later. Didn't even remember writing it. Like OP I'm also on Linux. I do not have the bug in Windows with the same calendar.
Comment 14•3 years ago
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Btw both Thunderbird preferences > date time formatting and my system's time zone are set to "Europe/Berlin".
Comment 15•3 years ago
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My calendar (fruux.com) is ALSO set to "Europe/Berlin". Sorry I can't edit comments here apparently.
Updated•2 years ago
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