All-day events off by a day on sync

36 postsstarted by dgoehring 2011-10-28 11:18 UTC11,708 viewsoriginal topic

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#1
2011-10-28 11:18 UTC

I am still having this issue with all of the sync calendars. The "all day" events are on the wrong day and the timed events are the off by one hour. I am in Central time zone and they seem to be in Mountain time zone.

[Moderator Note: I moved this topic from the original thread Calendar 2.0 time zones change when exporting to Google Calendar because the issue of all-day events being on the wrong day is still happening after the reported time-zone bug fix. So the reference to "this issue" concerns times and dates being off when syncing to another calendar system.]

Aczlan

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#2
2011-10-28 12:22 UTC

dgoehring wrote:I am still having this issue with all of the sync calendars. The "all day" events are on the wrong day and the timed events are the off by one hour. I am in Central time zone and they seem to be in Mountain time zone.

What are you syncing to? If you are syncing to Google Calendar, look to see what timezone the events are in, then you will know for sure.

Aaron Z

cbweatherman

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#3
2011-10-28 14:57 UTC

Same issue with all-day events

I also have the issue with all-day events appearing on the previous day. I currently have a branch conference in my stake scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday). Google Calendar, even though the timed events are correct on my calendar, still shows

(GMT+00:00) GMT (no daylight saving)

under Calendar time zone. I am in CDT (Alabama).

tsteenblik

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#4
2011-10-28 15:41 UTC

Two day events

I have a stake conference on our stake calendar. The single item in LDS.org starts Oct 29 and ends Oct 30. It shows as two days on LDS.org. When I view it in google calendar it only shows on the 29th.

mfmohlma

Senior Member

#5
2011-10-28 20:13 UTC

Time zone bug was fixed yesterday.

dgoehring

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#6
2011-10-29 03:58 UTC

Calendar date issues

My stake calendar has a number of events that are entered without times. In the calendar they look correct but when sync to outlook or google or iPad they all show one day earlier. For example thanksgiving shows up as Wednesday.

jdlessley

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#7
2011-10-29 05:12 UTC

dgoehring wrote:My stake calendar has a number of events that are entered without times. In the calendar they look correct but when sync to outlook or google or iPad they all show one day earlier. For example thanksgiving shows up as Wednesday.

It is not possible to enter an event without times in the new calendar. All-day events will appear on the calendar as if they have no start or end times but they do have start and end times. For an all-day event such as used for holidays the time is from 12:00 am until 11:59 pm.

JD Lessley
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elvidgeps

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#8
2011-10-29 12:08 UTC

All day events are still effected

I am in GMT0 - London.
Had the same problem with Google import/sync for all events. Before the fix I had tried resetting the sync address, checking time zone settings.
Yesterday all 'time specific' events were fixed but all 'all day' events appear on the previous day. So this does still need fixing.

P.S. Very impressed with the improvements in V2.

dgoehring

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#9
2011-10-30 02:56 UTC

I am seeing the same issue with all day events. When I sync them to outlook or Mac they show up one day earlier. If I create a start and end time, the sync properly. I, too, really like the new features but this is a big problem since so many are syncing their calendars.

nathan.g

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#10
2011-10-30 06:07 UTC

Same with me. When I create an all day event, comes up a day earlier in my synced iCal.

Love the new features as well in v2. Great job everyone

aebrown

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#11
2011-10-30 11:15 UTC

nathan.g wrote:Same with me. When I create an all day event, comes up a day earlier in my synced iCal.

In my calendar that is synced with Google Calendar, all my all-day events are exactly correct -- they appear as an all-day event on the correct date. As near as I can determine, I'm the only responder on this thread (after the initial bug fix) in the Mountain Time Zone, so that may well be the critical factor in that different behavior.

Questions that can benefit the larger community should be asked in a public forum, not a private message.

kd7mha

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#12
2011-10-30 12:54 UTC

My all-day events are also all correct

Mountain time zone

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russellhltn

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#13
2011-10-30 19:00 UTC

All of mine are correct at well. I'm not in the mountain zone. But looking at the ICal file, I have no idea why it's correct, as it appears to have a extra date.

As long as it works. <shurg>

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lajackson

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#14
2011-10-31 03:33 UTC

In another thread it was mentioned that deleting and reentering the all-day item will cause Google to pull the correct information and sync it properly.

Aczlan

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#15
2011-10-31 03:39 UTC

lajackson wrote:In another thread it was mentioned that deleting and reentering the all-day item will cause Google to pull the correct information and sync it properly.

Not the case here. We have an all day event which says that YM/Scouts is canceled on 22 Nov for Thanksgiving. It is showing up properly on the LDS.org calendar, but not on the Google Calendar.
I deleted the Google calendar, generated a new link, deleted the event, recreated it and created a new linked calendar with the new link.
Now my Google Calendar says that the event runs from Mon, November 21, 12am to Wed, November 23, 12am.
I am in the Eastern time zone.

Aaron Z

mwgrover

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#16
2011-10-31 05:03 UTC

v2 all-day events off one day for synced calendar

My bug:

When I look at the calendar on the website, the all-day events that our stake has entered (such as Family Home Evenings, Fast Sundays, Stake Conference, etc.) are all correct. However, when I sync/subscribe to my iCal calendar on my Mac, those events are all behind one day - Fast Sundays are on Saturday, Family Home Evenings are on Sunday, Stake Conference is Fri-Sat instead of Sat-Sun, etc.

I already tried deleting my sync subscription and re-copying the URL. Like I said, it is only the all-day events that are wrong. The events scheduled with a specific time are on the correct day in iCal.

jeffreymads

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#17
2011-10-31 12:47 UTC

Bug with syncing

I have a similar bug to the last poster. When I use the iCal feed to sync with Outlook, all of the day-long events show up one day behind (e.g., FHE on Sunday).

jdlessley

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#18
2011-10-31 17:10 UTC

Moderator note: these last two posts were moved from the Calendar 2.0 Bug List thread to permit addressing this issue separately without creating multiple topics in one thread. Threads are to discuss one topic in accordance with the Code of Conduct.

JD Lessley
Have you tried finding your answer on the ChurchofJesusChrist.org Help Center or Tech Wiki?

KenRichins

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#19
2011-10-31 20:36 UTC

did a sync yesterday with google and the all-day event came into google correct. I'm in the Pacific Time zone

jeffreymads

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#20
2011-11-01 14:40 UTC

Any solutions?

jeffreymads wrote:I have a similar bug to the last poster. When I use the iCal feed to sync with Outlook, all of the day-long events show up one day behind (e.g., FHE on Sunday).

Still happening today. I thought that, based on some of the other posts, this issue might have been fixed.

I get the problem either with importing to MS Outlook or to Google calendar.

Does anyone have a diagnosis or a workaround? I'm trying to produce a printed version of our stake calendar for next year (using a third-party program), and this bug is making it difficult.

I'm in the Eastern time zone. Here is an example of what I get in the feed:

Code:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20111101T143432Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;VALUE=DATE:20120401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE;VALUE=DATE:20120402
SUMMARY:Family Home Evening
UID:000000000000000000000000000000000000003042760@calendarws.lds.org
END:VEVENT

DTSTART should be 20120402 and DTEND should be 20120403, from what I can see.

russellhltn

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#21
2011-11-01 18:00 UTC

I think all of my "all day" events were holidays which I had to re-create. Is this an event that migrated from V1, or something created in V2 after the fix was announced, or in between?

tregis

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#22
2011-11-01 20:29 UTC

RussellHltn wrote:I think all of my "all day" events were holidays which I had to re-create. Is this an event that migrated from V1, or something created in V2 after the fix was announced, or in between?

I have the same problem here on the East Coast. This is with the all day events entered into the new version of the calendar. Most were after the last fixed was announced.

mwgrover

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#23
2011-11-03 02:14 UTC

sachsen wrote:My bug:

When I look at the calendar on the website, the all-day events that our stake has entered (such as Family Home Evenings, Fast Sundays, Stake Conference, etc.) are all correct. However, when I sync/subscribe to my iCal calendar on my Mac, those events are all behind one day - Fast Sundays are on Saturday, Family Home Evenings are on Sunday, Stake Conference is Fri-Sat instead of Sat-Sun, etc.

I already tried deleting my sync subscription and re-copying the URL. Like I said, it is only the all-day events that are wrong. The events scheduled with a specific time are on the correct day in iCal.

This is fixed now - thanks!

Aczlan

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#24
2011-11-03 02:32 UTC

sachsen wrote:This is fixed now - thanks!

Same here.

Aaron Z

nathan.g

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#25
2011-11-03 07:24 UTC

All fixed! Many thanks!

elvidgeps

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#26
2011-11-03 12:36 UTC

All day events seem FIXED as of this morning GMT-0. Well done.

coreysprague

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#27
2011-12-13 04:42 UTC

I cannot tell if this bug is supposed to have been fixed or if everyone has just thrown up their hands and accepted it as an unfixable bug. Seriously? My stake uses a PC-based calendar program during the planning period, which I then export to CSV. I've written a program that converts the CSV into an iCal standard format. Upload goes fine except for all-day events. LDS Calendar moves it to the previous day and slaps an 11:00pm time on it. This happens whether I use DTSTART=yyyymmdd or DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:yyyymmdd, and regardless of whether there is a DTEND value or not. I've tried several modifications and it looks like I will be forced to manually enter/edit my all-day events. Is there no way to get this fixed?

russellhltn

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#28
2011-12-13 05:09 UTC

coreysprague wrote:I cannot tell if this bug is supposed to have been fixed or if everyone has just thrown up their hands and accepted it as an unfixable bug.

Is there any time zone set in your file?

coreysprague

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#29
2011-12-13 15:39 UTC

RussellHltn wrote:Is there any time zone set in your file?

I am currently using the Google timezone spec: X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles, but I've also tried VTIMEZONE/TZID spec with no success.

russellhltn

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#30
2011-12-13 17:31 UTC

Just for fun, I exported the old calendar, since I've been told it will import properly into the new one. Here's what I get for a start:

Code:

BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:US/Mountain
LAST-MODIFIED:20060203
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:19671029T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:MST
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:19870405T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:MDT
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE

Note that I am NOT in the MST/MDT time zone.

mstauff

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#31
2011-12-13 17:54 UTC

I think RusselHltn has the critical piece there. The TZ needs to be defined in the ICS file. Is that included in your file?

coreysprague

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#32
2011-12-13 21:51 UTC

I will give that a try. All of my timed events are in GMT yyyymmddThhmmssZ format - they are uploading fine. It is only the all-day events that import is attempting to convert to timed events.

russellhltn

Community Administrator

#33
2011-12-13 23:50 UTC

Once again, going to the old system's export, here's a sample of a all-day event:

Code:

BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20111203T0001008424593@lds.org
CATEGORIES:Stake Event
DTSTAMP:20110107T111438Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111203
SUMMARY:Some all day event
END:VEVENT

coreysprague

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#34
2011-12-14 02:51 UTC

Still no luck. When I upload the following file, STAKE CONFERENCE appears on January 20 at 11:00pm.

Code:

Code:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//CSVCALconvert//EN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:US/Mountain
LAST-MODIFIED:20121213
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:19671029T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:MST
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:19870405T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:MDT
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:SAM20120121SQ1@coreyville.com
DTSTAMP:20111214T023416Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120121
CREATED:19000101T120000Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20111214T023416Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:STAKE CONFERENCE
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

gxwheel

Member

#35
2011-12-19 10:46 UTC

For all day events with NO location - members using the LDS Tools app - see the event as being a "All Day Saturday" event instead of an "All Day Sunday" event.

Two facts that may be relevant
- our stake is in Germany
- only locations have a timezone designation (at least from what the user can see)

gxwheel

Member

#36
2011-12-19 10:51 UTC

For all day events with NO location members using
- the LDS Tools app -
see the event as being a "All Day Saturday" event instead of an "All Day Sunday" event.

Two facts that may be relevant
- our stake is in Germany
- only locations have a timezone designation (at least from what the user can see)