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Message #21079
[Bug 711084] Re: [6.0, trunk] pytz zoneinfo missing from windows packaging - timezone conversion not working
We couldn't reproduce the problem here using Ubuntu.
We have checked here the situation by trying different cases:
- server is running with the system settings, web client too
- server is running with TZ='AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.5.0,M3.5.0', web client left as-is
- server and web client are running with TZ='AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.5.0,M3.5.0'
In all cases, both the GTK client and the Browser show the correct
values.
Keep in mind that using something like TZ='AEST-
10AEDT-11,M10.5.0,M3.5.0' is just for testing purpose: the server stores
date and time in its current timezone.
The previous comment (#9) was about the server. Probably the GTK client
installer still doesn't correctly include the zoneinfo data.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/711084
Title:
[6.0,trunk] pytz zoneinfo missing from windows packaging - timezone
conversion not working
Status in OpenERP GTK Client:
Confirmed
Status in OpenERP Web Client:
Confirmed
Bug description:
OpenERP server and web client 6.0.1 running on Ubuntu server (32-bit) 10.10
Postgres 8.4
Windows GTK client and web browser (Google Chrome) on WIndows 7 (64-bit)
(Server and web client were set up as per
http://powerphil.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/how-to-install-and-
configure-an-openerp-6-0-1-server-and-web-server-on-an-
ubuntu-10-10-server/).
Problem is that the times shown in the GTK client are shown at GMT (unless the server's TZ environment variable is set), i.e. they ignore the user's Timezone preference.
However, the web client works correctly.
More details:
Ubuntu server's time is correctly set to GMT. For example, if the time in London is 1am, the server's time also shows 1am (by doing a "date" on the command line, and the TZ environment variable is not set to anything).
Both openerp-server and openerp-web processes are running without any
TZ setting.
Then log into OpenERP using a web browser; set the User's preference
to Australia/Sydney; create a new Phone Call, Outbound; the time
correctly shows 12 noon (GMT + 11 hours, Sydney currently being on
summer time).
Do the same in the GTK client; the time shows 1am - wrong; it should
be 12 noon.
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More information:
So try to work around the problem: in the .bashrc file of the openerp user that runs the openerp-server process, set the TZ, viz:
TZ='AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.5.0,M3.5.0'
export TZ
Restart the service; log into the GTK client; create a new phone call; the time now shows correctly (for the wrong reasons, admittedly).
Go to the web browser and do the same thing; the time now shows 19 hours ahead of what it should be (on the next day!). Wrong.
So it looks like the web client is taking timezone time into account,
in addition to whatever the openerp-server is doing, and it should be
the other way around: the openerp-server should be calculating the
correct time, and the web server should just be presenting it.
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