389665 - Problems When Importing Sent Items from Outlook 2003

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309932

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Russell Harper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5

Times are incorrect for Sent Items.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have something in Sent Items in Outlook 2003 
2. Install Thunderbird 2.0.0.5
3. When prompted, import everything from Outlook
4. Compare the times
Actual Results:  
As an example, three sent items sent 7/23/2007 have times of 1:06 PM, 3:40 PM, and 7:42 PM.

Expected Results:  
Respectively, the three sent items should have times of 8:06 AM, 10:41 AM, and 2:43 PM. As well, this error is propagated to wherever the sent items are moved. As a result, sorting by date & time can give odd results.

The clock on the computer is set correctly and the timezone is Eastern GMT -05:00 with DST enabled. It appears as though the import logic is using GMT and ignoring DST for the time stamps.