On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Ludovic Courtès skribis: > >> Ben Sturmfels skribis: >> >>> I've downloaded the source with `guix build --source >>> evolution-data-server`, extracted and found the the function >>> "e_cal_util_get_system_timezone()" at src/calendar/libecal/e-cal-util.c:1507 >>> which calls down to "system_timezone_find()" in e-cal-system-timezone.c:522 >>> where it looks up the timezone and compares it to a list of valid zones. >> >> Looking more closely, ‘system_timezone_find’ first tries to see if >> /etc/localtime is a symlink and if yes reads its target (but it’s never >> a symlink, AFAIK), and later on tries to compare /etc/localtime to files >> found under ‘SYSTEM_ZONEINFODIR’. >> >> Problem is: >> >> #define SYSTEM_ZONEINFODIR "/usr/share/zoneinfo" >> >> So probably, if you substitute “/usr/” with the prefix of the ‘tzdata’ >> package, it’ll work much better. :-) > > Did you have a chance to look into it? Sorry Ludo, no, not yet. It's still on my list to take a look at some time though. Regards, Ben