From af6159bc55ccd71fa0c8f19eb35aae03ffcbeb45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:04:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Conversion: WHen inserting the publication year in the
 metadata jacket, do so in the local time zone, so it matches what is
 displayed in the main calibre program. Fixes #1703439 [wrong pubdate on the
 jacket if set to 01/01/YYYY](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1703439)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py    | 4 ++--
 src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
index 5cad96873f..8131e997f4 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ OptionRecommendation(name='language',
 
 OptionRecommendation(name='pubdate',
     recommended_value=None, level=OptionRecommendation.LOW,
-    help=_('Set the publication date.')),
+    help=_('Set the publication date (assumed to be in the local timezone, unless the timezone is explicitly specified)')),
 
 OptionRecommendation(name='timestamp',
     recommended_value=None, level=OptionRecommendation.LOW,
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ OptionRecommendation(name='search_replace',
                         continue
                 elif x in ('timestamp', 'pubdate'):
                     try:
-                        val = parse_date(val, assume_utc=x=='pubdate')
+                        val = parse_date(val, assume_utc=x=='timestamp')
                     except:
                         self.log.exception(_('Failed to parse date/time') + ' ' +
                                 unicode(val))
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py
index 633e2b6d1a..cd3f8f9265 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from calibre.constants import iswindows
 from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import XPath, XHTML_NS, XHTML, xml2text, urldefrag
 from calibre.library.comments import comments_to_html
-from calibre.utils.date import is_date_undefined
+from calibre.utils.date import is_date_undefined, as_local_time
 from calibre.utils.icu import sort_key
 from calibre.ebooks.chardet import strip_encoding_declarations
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata import fmt_sidx, rating_to_stars
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ def render_jacket(mi, output_profile,
         if is_date_undefined(mi.pubdate):
             pubdate = ''
         else:
-            pubdate = strftime(u'%Y', mi.pubdate.timetuple())
+            dt = as_local_time(mi.pubdate)
+            pubdate = strftime(u'%Y', dt.timetuple())
     except:
         pubdate = ''