Bug#743030: wrong time deltas when entering daylight saving time

[chrysn]

Package: hamster-applet
Version: 2.91.3+git20120514.b9fec3e1-1
Severity: normal

in a time zone like central european, where summer time exists, creating
event that starts 2014-03-30 at 01:00 and ends at 09:00 makes the event
show up in the overview as 8h, while that span of time is actually 7h
long as wall time warps from 02:00 to 03:00 when entering dst.

(same would go in theory for people who regularly change timezones for
other reasons, eg travelling.)

how hard to fix this would be depends on implementation (i assume it is
not trivial -- were unix time stamps used internally, this wouldn't
happen in the first place), but i'd expect a program whose purpose it is
to count time not to err when doing so.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hamster-applet depends on:
ii  gconf2            3.2.6-2
ii  python            2.7.5-5
ii  python-cairo      1.8.8-1+b2
ii  python-dbus       1.2.0-2+b2
ii  python-gconf      2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gnome2     2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gobject-2  2.28.6-12+b1
ii  python-gtk2       2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-wnck       2.32.0+dfsg-3
ii  python-xdg        0.25-4
ii  python2.6         2.6.8-2
ii  python2.7         2.7.6-8

Versions of packages hamster-applet recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.12.0-1
ii  python-notify     0.1.1-3

Versions of packages hamster-applet suggests:
pn  python-evolution  <none>

-- no debconf information

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