Re: [os-libsynthesis] System Timezone detection is wrong?

2009-12-02 Thread Beat Forster
Hello Chen, as we've seen already, the timezone detection is a very heuristic problem. It makes it extremely complicated and unreliable, if a system is not providing correct, incomplete or even wrong information. If you only get the names, you need an internal table to get the start and end

Re: [os-libsynthesis] System Timezone detection is wrong?

2009-12-02 Thread Chen, Congwu
Patrick wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 02:49 +, Chen, Congwu wrote: Hello, On linux (platform_adapters/linux/platform_timezones.cpp), the implementation of getSystemTimeZoneContext seems have problems: it use tzset() and later check tzname[0], tzname[1] to match against a built-in known

Re: [os-libsynthesis] More calendar tests problems

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick Ohly
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 07:50 +, Chen Congwu wrote: 2. Shall we (SyncEvolution) merge the remote rule configurations for various phones already done by synthesis, so that we can benefit immediately from synthesis excellent work. And of course we will contribute back our new findings. So we

Re: [os-libsynthesis] Any observations of mobical.net having problems with client Add?

2009-12-02 Thread Lukas Zeller
Hi Patrick, Thanks for the feedback! We haven't heard back from that customer since, which usually means the problem has gone away (for whatever reason). I'm inclined to put this into the random failures (at mobical) department - it might well be that they had a temporary problem with adding