Repeating Google Calendar invites showing up at wrong time

[mholzma]

I have a recurring Google Calendar Event that is supposed to show up at 18:15 however the calendar shows it at 23:15 instead.

Here is the excerpt from the ICS file.

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230222T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230222T191500
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY
DTSTAMP:20230426T172808Z
UID:arhpo9aql0lcctnpcdl0olhevp@google.com
CLASS:PUBLIC
CREATED:20220901T003716Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T170307Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:2
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:6:15 guitar - Sarah
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT

And here is a picture of the stock calendar module:

Do I just need to recereate those entries or is something else going on?

[sdetweil]

@mholzma what time is your system set to ? we use that as the base for the calendar

[mholzma]

@sdetweil America/Central. The non repeating invites show up correctly.

[sdetweil]

@mholzma I am on central time too… and I see 18:15

in your config.js change this

	logLevel: ["INFO", "LOG", "WARN", "ERROR"],

to this

	logLevel: ["INFO", "LOG", "WARN", "ERROR","DEBUG"],

then start your MM like this from the command line (if using pm2, do a pm2 stop all)

npm start >somefile.txt

wait til the calendar is up
then ctrl-m to minimize MM
ctrl-c to stop mm

then edit the somefile.txt
and look for

[DEBUG] initial tz=America/Chicago
[DEBUG] corrected tz=America/Chicago

let me know…

[mholzma]

@sdetweil, here is the log data I found and nothing seems off.

[27.04.2023 15:31.17.650] [DEBUG] Event:
{**<REDACTED>**}
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.650] [DEBUG] start: Thu Feb 23 2023 00:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT)
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.650] [DEBUG] end:: Thu Feb 23 2023 01:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT)
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.650] [DEBUG] duration: 3600000
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.650] [DEBUG] title: 6:15 guitar - Sarah
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.650] [DEBUG] Search for recurring events between: Thu Apr 27 2023 15:31:17 GMT+0000 (GMT) and Thu Apr 25 2024 23:59:59 GMT+0000 (GMT)
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] Title: 6:15 guitar - Sarah, with dates: ["2023-05-04T05:15:00.000Z",**<REDACTED>**]
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] event.recurrences: undefined
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG]  recurring date is Thu May 04 2023 05:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT) offset is 0
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG]  recurring date is Thu May 04 2023 05:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT) offset is 0 Hour is 05
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] Corrected startDate: Thu May 04 2023 05:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT)
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] initial tz=America/Chicago
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] corrected tz=America/Chicago
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] start date/time=Thu Feb 23 2023 00:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT)
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] start offset=-360
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] start date/time w tz =Thu Feb 23 2023 00:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT)
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] event date=Thu May 04 2023 05:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT)
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] event offset=-300 hour=0 event date=Thu May 04 2023 05:15:00 GMT+0000 (GMT)
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] offset
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.653] [DEBUG] adjust down 1 hour dst change
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.654] [DEBUG] adjustHours=-1
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.654] [DEBUG] duration: 3600000
[27.04.2023 15:31.17.654] [DEBUG] saving event: false

[sdetweil]

@mholzma this is mine

 recurring date is Wed May 03 2023 19:15:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) offset is 300
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.846] [DEBUG]  recurring date is Wed May 03 2023 19:15:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) offset is 5 Hour is 19
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.846] [DEBUG] new recurring date2 is Wed May 03 2023 19:15:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] Corrected startDate: Wed May 03 2023 19:15:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] initial tz=America/Chicago
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] corrected tz=America/Chicago
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] start date/time=Wed Feb 22 2023 18:15:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] start offset=-360
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] start date/time w tz =Wed Feb 22 2023 18:15:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] event date=Wed May 03 2023 19:15:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] event offset=-300 hour=19 event date=Wed May 03 2023 19:15:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] offset
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] adjust down 1 hour dst change
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] adjustHours=-1
[26.04.2023 18:02.26.847] [DEBUG] duration: 3600000

which says your system timezone is set to GMT time,

[mholzma]

@sdetweil, you nailed it! Thank you so much.

I needed to add a timezone environment variable to my docker container. Thank you so much for pointing that out!

Planning to build a display (not smart mirror) for our kitchen and this was the hold up.