[Spacewalk-list] Incorrect timezone in new 2.1 date / time picker.

[Cliff Perry]

On 28/03/14 16:05, Ron Helzer wrote:
> There's only one other GMT-0500 timezone choice
> available (Indiana), where they don't observe DST... That, in
> conjunction with the fact that there were no DST issues pre-2.1, would
> suggest to me that the GMT-0500 (Eastern) setting should account for
> EDT/EST change.
>
> Are you suggesting I'm supposed to change the preference twice a year to
> manually account for DST?
>
>
> On Friday, March 28, 2014, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. <dmacvicar at suse.de
> <mailto:dmacvicar at suse.de>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 28/03/14 16:39, Ron Helzer wrote:
>>     (GMT-0500) United States (Eastern)
>>
>
>     So you have configured for your user EST, but in reality you are in
>     EDT, Spacewalk thinks you are EST and schedules according to that?.
>     What is wrong?
>
>     Duncan
>
>>
>>     On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Duncan Mac-Vicar P.
>>     <dmacvicar at suse.de
>>     <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dmacvicar at suse.de');>> wrote:
>>
>>         On 27/03/14 19:30, Ron Helzer wrote:
>>         > When attempting to schedule tasks in 2.1, I've noticed they are
>>         > delayed by an hour. The reason seems to be that the new date
>>         / time
>>         > picker in 2.1 thinks I'm in EST, when it's currently EDT.
>>         There seems
>>         > to be no way to change the timezone being used by the new
>>         dialog...
>>         >
>>         > I've never had issues with time on this Spacewalk server in
>>         the past
>>         > (since ver 1.1 or so) - is there a new configuration option
>>         for this
>>         > somewhere that I'm just not seeing?
>>         >
>>         >
>>
>>         What timezone do you have configured in
>>         /rhn/account/LocalePreferences.do ?
>>
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>>
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Weird... not sure how to resolve this sanely ... I believe in the past 
the code/library used did follow daylight saving switches OK with the 
idea being we were more concerned with what timezone you were in, vs 
locking you into a specific EST vs EDT setting.

Cliff