In KDE4, my old calendar shows event times in the correct time zone (America / New York) in day and week views; however, in monthly and summary views, those same event times are shown in UTC. New event entries show correctly (America / New York). How do I change the UTC tag for old event times to the correct time zone? They showed correctly in KDE 3.5.

Thank you! - Andy

Sounds like a bug, so please report it on bugs.kde.org. Please search for a already existing bug before filing though

Did this bug ever get filed? I've noticed this on both my Kubuntu systems. One is still using KDE 4.1.3, while the other is using 4.2b2. I have a Kolab server where all my events are saved in a shared folder.

When Kontact (Korganizer) starts up, events show in their text boxes with the correct time/date/timezone information, and for the most part are in the correct position on the grid. However, for late evening events, they will straddle two days.

For instance, I am in the New York timezone (USA Eastern) and I have an event for 6pm to 9pm (18:00 to 21:00) on Wednesday nights. When I start Kontact, that event shows up on the grid at 6pm Wednesday AND 6pm Thursday. The box on the left side says:

Time: 01/07/09 06:00 pm - 01/07/09 09:00 pm
Next Occurrence: 1/14/09 11:00 pm

Notice the next occurrence time is for the wrong timezone.

Here's how I fix it for the current session only: I open the "Configure Calendar" settings, select "Time and Date". The time zone is listed as "America/New York". I change that to something else (like America/Nassau), click Apply, and "Keep Times" in the popup dialog box. Then I change the time zone setting back to "America/New York", but this time I click "Move Times", then all the duplicate boxes in the grid disappear. Also, the text on the left hand side changes slightly to this:

Time: 06:00:00 pm - 9:00:00 pm
Date: 01/07/09
Next Occurrence: 01/14/09 06:00 pm
Creation Date: 12/17/08 04:58pm

You can see that this includes much more information about the event. The date has moved to a separate line and the next occurrence time has corrected itself. There is even a line now for the creation date that wasn't there before.

When I restart Kontact, the original behavior returns and I must jump through the hoops again as outlined above.

On a side note, I've never liked the "original information" that is shown with repeating events. I don't care about dates in the past. My eyes are drawn to the "Date: 01/07/09" and I see that in the past, and which was the FIRST date that the event applied to. You have to really look at the Next Occurrence line to see the real date. This applies to reminder notifications as well, if I recall. I would rather see the date as the next occurrence date. Maybe have the upcoming date as the upcoming date and the "next occurrence" show as the one after that.

I also have this problem.

I used to be on fedora, I exported my calendar as iCalendar. I installed ubuntu and now when I import the file into KOrganizer all the times are in UTC, when they should be in my time zone. This caused some events to be in the wrong place on the calendar table, usually those around midnight (I'm in Europe).

here are the related bugs, some are probably duplicates:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68345
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143522
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124456
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80448
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171570
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151925
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128458
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157228
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118715

Of the ones you listed, it seems that https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143522 is the closest in description to my problem. I'm going to post there.