268711 - Event times change when system clock switches to/from daylight saving time

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Internal Components, defect)

Description

[gthornock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

A couple of months ago, I created a calendar with several events for the
upcoming year.  Everything looked fine, until last week when we switched from
Daylight Saving Time back to standard time.  Now, the start and end times for
all of the events appear an hour earlier than they are supposed to.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set time zone to Mountain Time (USA, with Daylight Saving Time enabled) and
system date to sometime in September (before the time change).
2. Create a calendar with events in November and December.  Note the start and
end times of your events.
3. Set the system date to November (after the time change).
4. Note that the event start and end times now appear an hour earlier than you
had specified.

Actual Results:  
Event start and end times changed 1 hour.

Expected Results:  
Event start and end times should have remained as originally specified.

Comment 1

[Rod Whiteley]

It works for me using:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041106 Mozilla Sunbird/0.2b

I tried it both with and without the Universal Time setting.  The times
displayed by Sunbird and the data in the ICS file were all OK.

Perhaps it would help if you give an actual example of a date and time that you
set in September, how it is stored in the ICS file, and how you see it in November.

Comment 2

[Joey Minta]

This also works for me.  In light of comment #1, and no response from the
reporter, resolving wfm.

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: Internal Components. Be afraid for your sanity!