Bug 317817

I'm facing a similar problem in a different timezone. 
My timezone is set as Asia/Kolkata (+0530).However, any mail I send has the timezone set to +0630.
The date and time in any other widget/application I use shows the correct time.
Backtracking through my 'Sent-Mail' shows the problem had first occurred on 12th Feb 2014. All mail before that has the correct timezone.
That might be around the time I added the KDE backport repositories. I'm not absolutely sure, but it's definetly around the same time frame.

I'm using Kubuntu 13.10 with
Qt: 4.8.6
KDE Development Platform: 4.12.3
kde4-config: 1.0

same thing happens to me, with TZ 'Asia/Kolkata'. all emails sent are stamped (localtime - 1 hour).

i'm using archlinux with KDE 4.13.0, but the same thing happens on another machine, openSUSE 13.1 / KDE 4.11.5

on the arch machine system time is set == UTC, on the openSUSE box to localtime.

here's the output of timedatectl (arch box):
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[root@phani phani]# timedatectl status
Local time: Sat 2014-05-10 12:32:51 IST
Universal time: Sat 2014-05-10 07:02:51 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2014-05-10 07:02:51
Time zone: Asia/Kolkata (IST, +0530)
NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no
DST active: n/a
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korganizer appointments & reminders are also off by one hour. this can sometimes be corrected by choosing 'floating' TZ in korganizer, but doesn't always work.

On the assumption that the 20 people who've voted for this bug are also experiencing the problem, can you please all post your current config so we can try find a common pattern.  Please post your distro and distro version, KDE version, the time difference you've noticed, if the difference is just in the email header or also in korganizer, and the output from running "timedatectl" in a terminal.  If you don't have "timedatectl" on your sytem then you need to manually list the output from "ls -l /etc/localtime" or for Debian/Ubuntu based systems "cat /etc/timezone", and state if teh system time is set to UTC or not.

misunderstanding: when i went to vote for this bug, i saw that i could choose up to 20 votes for it, which i did. i'm all those votes because this is driving me to use thunderbird now, while in all other respects i greatly prefer kmail.

problem still persists in Kubuntu 14.40, KDE 4.13

from sent-mail header:
Subject: HI there
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 15:55:31 +0204
Message-ID: <1519502.giisbihdPd@sinclair-hp>
X-KMail-Identity: 62776042
User-Agent: KMail/4.13 (Linux/3.12.15-031215-generic; KDE/4.13.0; x86_64; ; )
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="nextPart1619318.Gbib8DB56r"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

Output of timedatectl status:
sinclair@sinclair-HP:~$ timedatectl
      Local time: Sat 2014-05-10 15:54:31 CAT
  Universal time: Sat 2014-05-10 13:54:31 UTC
        Timezone: Africa/Harare (CAT, +0200)
     NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: n/a
sinclair@sinclair-HP:~$ timedatectl status
      Local time: Sat 2014-05-10 15:54:35 CAT
  Universal time: Sat 2014-05-10 13:54:35 UTC
        Timezone: Africa/Harare (CAT, +0200)
     NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: n/a

change timezone to Zambia/Lusaka (same timezone UTC+0200):
from KMail:
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 16:03:54 +0200
Message-ID: <1991255.oNBM25R7Xn@sinclair-hp>
X-KMail-Identity: 62776042
User-Agent: KMail/4.13 (Linux/3.12.15-031215-generic; KDE/4.13.0; x86_64; ; )
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="nextPart2590304.hvEY000s8D"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

output of timedatectl status:
Local time: Sat 2014-05-10 16:03:03 CAT
  Universal time: Sat 2014-05-10 14:03:03 UTC
        Timezone: Africa/Lusaka (CAT, +0200)
     NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: n/a
sinclair@sinclair-HP:~$ timedatectl status
      Local time: Sat 2014-05-10 16:19:05 CAT
  Universal time: Sat 2014-05-10 14:19:05 UTC
        Timezone: Africa/Lusaka (CAT, +0200)
     NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: no                                                                          
 RTC in local TZ: no                                                                          
      DST active: n/a

Thanks.  I've raised this on the pim list and it does appear to be an issue in KTimeZone which the maintainer is looking into.

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.