[kronolith] timezone problem in Calendar Views

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Systeembeheer BCS <adje at bezoekerscentrumsonsbeek.nl>:

> Ok, have been digging a bit deeper into this one. Changing timezones in
> php.ini made no difference. But I remember Kronolith working correctly when
> I first installed the system, so I decided to copy the complete present
> system config to a test machine and spend some late hours trying things
> out.
>
> Strange enough it turns out this problem is caused by disabling the Nag
> menu. I did so because we don't use Nag and we have to keep things in the
> UI as simple as possible over here. I disabled the Nag menu in
> horde/config/registry.local.php like this:
>
>>    /* disable nag
>>     'nag' => array(
>>         'name' => _("Tasks"),
>>         'provides' => 'tasks',
>>     ),
>>
>>     'nag-menu' => array(
>>         'status' => 'topbar',
>>         'app' => 'nag',
>>         'topbar_params' => array(
>>             'id' => 'menu'
>>         ),
>>         'menu_parent' => 'nag',
>>     ),
>> */

The correct way to disable Nag (see the comments in the header of  
'horde/config/registry.php'), would be to put the following in  
'horde/config/registry.local.php':

     <?php
     $this->applications['nag']['status'] = 'inactive';

>  This will remove the Nag menus allright but also seems to break something
> in Kronolith causing the timezone issue I described earlier.

One lesson to learn, is that you should *never* redefine arrays in  
your *.local.php files. Instead, just change the parameter that you're  
interested in. This is documented in almost every configuration file  
(at the top), just not in this one.

> Re-enabling the Nag menu on my test machine caused all start- and ending
> times of all calender items that were set to "default" timezone to be
> modified (2 hours later). So I'd rather not do that on my production
> server...

I'm afraid you'll have to bite the bullet here and fix this in the database.

> Would be very nice to have a better fix. Any suggestions welcome!
>
> thanks, Martin
>
> Citeren Systeembeheer BCS <adje at bezoekerscentrumsonsbeek.nl>:
>
>> We like the time of an event to appear in the different calendar views
>> (Month, Week) so on the Calendar>User interface preference page we set
>> "Choose the views to show event start and end times in:" to "Month, Week
>> and Day Views". That works fine.
>>
>> Now when creating a new event in the calendar, some users change the
>> timezone in the event window from "Default" to "Europe/Amsterdam". That
>> should not make a difference as Europe/Amsterdam is the default timezone
>> anyway and all users are set to this. But it does make a difference:
>> - With the timezone of an event set to default, times displayed in the
>> calendar views are correct.
>> - Events with the timezone set to Europe/Amsterdam appear with the
>> start- en ending times displayed with an offset of -2 hours.
>>
>> Running Horde Groupware 5.1.4, Kronolith version 4.1.5 on Ubuntu server
>> 12.04LTS.
>> /etc/timezone on the system is set to Europe/Amsterdam, the 'date'
>> command shows the correct local time from the command line.
>>
>> Maybe related: although Ubuntu has the correct timezone setting, in
>> Horde's "global prefs">"Locale and Time" setting all users have to set
>> the default timezone to Europe/Amsterdam anyway to get the correct time
>> in Horde. I assume Horde always references to UTC regardless of system
>> settings?
>>
>> Thanks...Martin
>
>
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