LockedAll day events showing as two days long

I imported an(iCal format) calendar into my ward Young Womens calendar from Google calendar. Events marked as all day are showing up as two days long in LDS.Org calendar. If I manually correct the event it fixes the entry until I refresh the browser screen. Upon refreshing it reverts back to all day events showing up as two days long.

Then I manually created an all day event in LDS.org and saved it. It showed up as two days long as well. So the issue is happening on both imported events and manually created events.

Imported and Manually created events that have specific start/end times are showing up properly.

Working on:
Windows 7
Chrome Browser Version 43.0.2357.130 m (current version)

There have historically been DST issues with the Calendar that result in the problem you describe. Could you provide some more detail information. What time zone are you in? What is the date of the event with the problem?

DST problems generally apply to events on the "other side" of the DST switch. For today, in the US, that would be events starting with November. October and before shouldn't be affected.

But there can also be oddities when importing iCal files. Something could have been misinterpreted.

I have the same problem. I'm trying to put Memorial Day on the 2016 Stake Calendar. I click May 30 on the calendar. I enter "Memorial Day" as the event and check the box for All Day. Everything else defaults. I click Create Event. When the calendar returns both May 30 and 31 are highlighted.

Sometimes when I do this the correct date is the only one highlighted, but when I move to a new month and come back to May the calendar has changed and both are highlighted.

This error happens every time I try to enter an all day event. The only way I can work around this is to 1) Enter the event name on the correct date, but without selecting "All Day" and without changing any start/stop times. Then, create the event. 2) After that, edit that same event and select "All Day". Then, Update that event. The event is changed to an all day event and stays that changed. It works, but it sure makes for a lot of extra work.

BTW Our stake is in northwest Indiana. Most of Indiana is in the Eastern Time Zone, but our stake is actually in the Central Time Zone. We are on Chicago Time. Don't know, if that has anything to do with the problem.

When you create an event, the calendar uses the current time according to your computer. When the calendar is viewed, events are shown (and adjusted if necessarily) based on the time of the computer it's being viewed on. So if I view an event on a computer in the Eastern time zone, it could show up as 6:00 PM, but on a computer in the Central time zone the same event would show up as 5:00 PM. It's possible that your computer or device is connecting to an internet network of some sort that's giving out the wrong time, perhaps a cell phone tower just over the time zone border...

Another possibility has to do with a daylight savings time bug that can affect events scheduled before or after the daylight savings time change.

I'm both editing the calendar and viewing it from the same location, which is in the Central Time Zone. I'm using a desktop machine to do this. Also, the problem can occur (and has occurred) in all months of the year.

rscroggin wrote:Also, the problem can occur (and has occurred) in all months of the year.

Does that include dates in August, September and October of 2015? Or only dates in and after November 2015?

Anything on the "other side" of DST tends to be problematic. But if you're experiencing it on "this side" of DST, then that's a new bug.

sbradshaw wrote:When you create an event, the calendar uses the current time zone according to your computer. When the calendar is viewed, events are shown (and adjusted if necessarily) based on the time zone of the computer it's being viewed on.

Least anyone gets confused, I fixed it for you.

As pointed out, mobile devices can have their time zones change unexpectedly. (And I've caught Verizon Wireless playing fast and loose with time zones. Nothing you'd notice looking at "local time", but something that can mess you up in scheduling things on the other side of DST.)

"russellhltn wrote
Does that include dates in August, September and October of 2015? Or only dates in and after November 2015?

Yes. I added an all-day event to August 2015 and it appeared as a two day event on the calendar.

Yeah, that's worse than normal.

This still is a problem for us. I am entering a number of all day events...camps, holidays that sort of thing, and it continues to show up as 2 days. For example, I enter 'New Years Day' on Jan 1 as all day event and it comes up showing from 1st - 2nd Jan (2 days). Im in Australia, using Mac OS, Safari. I have also tried it on Mozilla, with the same results. It's getting frustrating as camp dates appear to start a day earlier and finish a day later than is the case.

Try this work-around. Not the best, but it works. Add the event giving it an Event Name and optionally an Event Description. However, don't select "All day event" and leave the Start/Stop times as they defaulted. Then, click Create Event. After you're returned to the calendar click the event you just created and then click Edit event details and location. This time, select "All day event", make any other changes you want, and click Update Event. You should now see your all day event on a single day the way you want it. Give it a try.

Thanks! Have done this and it works. Appreciate the help.

This problem is on our list of top problems to fix. We hope to have it fixed after general conference.

Dave Crockett - calendar product manager

Am having the same problem, and it impacts all day repeating events that have a later date that falls on a DST change. For example, I create Fast Sunday on January 3, 2016 repeating for the whole year. At least one of those repeat first Sundays of the month falls on DST change, so every fast sunday now shows Sunday through Monday year long. This has never been an issue in past years (this is my fourth year preparing the stake calendar).

Tried to create a one day event on another day and drag it over, but that fails on March 8 2016 (Start of DST) and it converts it into a two day event. My local time zone is Pacific if that makes a difference. The attachment shows what is entered and how it displays.

Help!

We have had issues calendaring events for this entire year. If I schedule an event for 3 days it schedules it for 4 or 5 days. I scheduled YW Camp Monday through Saturday and it scheduled it through Sunday. Most of the time it adds an extra day at the beginning and an extra day at the end. When is this going to get fixed?

CrockettDR wrote:This problem is on our list of top problems to fix. We hope to have it fixed after general conference.

Dave Crockett - calendar product manager

Apparently it's being fixed now.

Any idea when the release will be ready?

The release went out today, Try it out. However, we detected a problem with setup/takedown times. When you create a new event, those fields should be "none" by default, but they are blank causing an error message if the user doesn't set it to "none." We will try to fix that fast or will need to roll back the release because it is pretty confusing to the user because the error message just says data fields are incomplete.

Just tried it. Looks to be working well. I noticed that the setup/take down actually said 'none' by default, so I didn't get an error. Thanks!

Well it looks like they did something even though the two fields are still blank. The box to select rooms starts out with a red outline and it was staying red even with some rooms checked. I think that it why it was not letting me create an event. Now the red box goes away when at least one room is selected and if you select None in the setup/cleanup boxes, it then allows the event to be created.
I sure hope they don't have to roll back. I'm glad they are still there trying to get it worked out.

I can confirm that it's working, too. I was encountering an additional problem when generating a printed copy. Prior to this latest fix I used a "workaround" to get the "All Day" events to display correctly in the online version of the calendar. However, when the PDF version for printing was generated the "All Day" events would appear on the day previous from what they should have. For example, all of my Fast Sundays are entered as "All Day" events. In the PDF version they all showed up on Saturday instead of Sunday even though they displayed online correctly. After the fix they were still printing wrong, but I found out that if I deleted and re-entered them, the printing problem went away for the re-entered "All Day" events. Thought I'd pass that along in case anyone else was having that problem.

the 2 day issue is still happening now. all of these posts seem to be in 2015 but the 2023 calendar is doing the same thing

kdensl wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:33 am the 2 day issue is still happening now. all of these posts seem to be in 2015 but the 2023 calendar is doing the same thing

This is being discussed currently in the thread "All Day" Calendar Events Set to 3 Days (instead of 1) - for 11 March 2023 and beyond!.