Reoccurring Calendar Entries missing in native calendar

sdetweil

@lawrence_jeff said in Reoccurring Calendar Entries missing in native calendar:

DTSTART;TZID=Central Standard Time:20231217T130000

the timezone id is incorrect

it’s America/Chicago, or appropriate

the module and the calendar parser support only the industry standard IANA timezone ids

you should see errors reported where u saw the logs

Microsoft has been adding support for custom timezones to its calendar products, which creates a mess

lawrence_jeff

@sdetweil Thanks Sam

I see node-ical seemed to add support for Microsoft timezone names in this 2020 change
https://github.com/jens-maus/node-ical/pull/18/files/25bcb9d154d158c45ff0147e832425fafacfbeae#

And they have Central Standard Time in their test file. I thought this is what was used for parsing the ICS, is there another dependency or component involved?

sdetweil

@lawrence_jeff that was me adding that support. but I don’t think it uses the whole string

add

, "DEBUG"

to the config.js
logLevel property inside the brackets

and then do

pm2 stop all
npm start >somefile.txt 2>$1

wait 15 seconds, ctrl-q to stop mm (if on same screen, else ctrl-c over ssh)
then look at the debug output in somefile.txt

lawrence_jeff

@sdetweil Ok - did that. No errors in the log but it doesn’t seem to be picking up the reoccurrence. Since that prior event isn’t upcoming over the next few days I can’t validate its not being listed , so I grabbed another one that has an occurrence tomorrow but isn’t showing up.

Here are all the relevant pieces
First a screenshot from Outlook.com

The snippet from the ICS file
BEGIN:VEVENT
DESCRIPTION:\n
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20240810T140000Z;INTERVAL=4;BYDAY=SA;WKST=SU
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000090EC232E2551DA01000000000000000
01000000089A47F724BAC3C4AB762C60FE5C3D401
SUMMARY:W med
DTSTART;TZID=Central America Standard Time:20240224T080000
DTEND;TZID=Central America Standard Time:20240224T083000
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20240323T005412Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
LOCATION:
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:1
X-MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE:DEFAULT
X-MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED:FALSE
END:VEVENT

The log entry (I removed the dates and debug flat to make it easier to read)
{“type”:“VEVENT”,“params”:[],“description”:“\n”,“rrule”:{“_cache”:{“all”:false,“before”:[],“after”:[],“between”:[]},“origOptions”:{“tzid”:“America/Guatemala”,“dtstart”:“2024-02-24T14:00:00.000Z”,“freq”:2,“until”:“2024-08-10T14:00:00.000Z”,“interval”:4,“byweekday”:[{“weekday”:5}],“wkst”:{“weekday”:6}},“options”:{“freq”:2,“dtstart”:“2024-02-24T14:00:00.000Z”,“interval”:4,“wkst”:6,“count”:null,“until”:“2024-08-10T14:00:00.000Z”,“tzid”:“America/Guatemala”,“bysetpos”:null,“bymonth”:null,“bymonthday”:[],“bynmonthday”:[],“byyearday”:null,“byweekno”:null,“byweekday”:[5],“bynweekday”:null,“byhour”:[14],“byminute”:[0],“bysecond”:[0],“byeaster”:null}},“uid”:“040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000090EC232E2551DA0100000000000000001000000089A47F724BAC3C4AB762C60FE5C3D401”,“summary”:“W med”,“start”:“2024-02-24T14:00:00.000Z”,“datetype”:“date-time”,“end”:“2024-02-24T14:30:00.000Z”,“class”:“PUBLIC”,“priority”:“5”,“dtstamp”:“2024-03-22T16:33:34.000Z”,“transparency”:“OPAQUE”,“status”:“CONFIRMED”,“sequence”:“0”,“location”:“”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE”:“0”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS”:“BUSY”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS”:“BUSY”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE”:“1”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE”:“1”,“MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE”:“DEFAULT”,“MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED”:“FALSE”,“method”:“PUBLISH”,“recurrences”:{“2024-03-23”:{“type”:“VEVENT”,“params”:[],“description”:“\n”,“uid”:“040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000090EC232E2551DA0100000000000000001000000089A47F724BAC3C4AB762C60FE5C3D401”,“recurrenceid”:“2024-03-23T13:00:00.000Z”,“summary”:“W med”,“start”:“2024-03-22T13:00:00.000Z”,“datetype”:“date-time”,“end”:“2024-03-22T13:30:00.000Z”,“class”:“PUBLIC”,“priority”:“5”,“dtstamp”:“2024-03-22T16:33:34.000Z”,“transparency”:“OPAQUE”,“status”:“CONFIRMED”,“sequence”:“0”,“location”:“”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE”:“0”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS”:“BUSY”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS”:“BUSY”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE”:“1”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE”:“3”,“MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE”:“DEFAULT”,“MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED”:“FALSE”},“2024-05-18”:{“type”:“VEVENT”,“params”:[],“description”:“\n”,“uid”:“040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000090EC232E2551DA0100000000000000001000000089A47F724BAC3C4AB762C60FE5C3D401”,“recurrenceid”:“2024-05-18T13:00:00.000Z”,“summary”:“W med”,“start”:“2024-05-17T13:00:00.000Z”,“datetype”:“date-time”,“end”:“2024-05-17T13:30:00.000Z”,“class”:“PUBLIC”,“priority”:“5”,“dtstamp”:“2024-03-22T16:33:34.000Z”,“transparency”:“OPAQUE”,“status”:“CONFIRMED”,“sequence”:“0”,“location”:“”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE”:“0”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS”:“BUSY”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS”:“BUSY”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE”:“1”,“MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE”:“3”,“MICROSOFT-DONOTFORWARDMEETING”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER”:“FALSE”,“MICROSOFT-REQUESTEDATTENDANCEMODE”:“DEFAULT”,“MICROSOFT-ISRESPONSEREQUESTED”:“FALSE”}}}

Here is how it parsed it:
start: Sat Feb 24 2024 08:00:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
end:: Sat Feb 24 2024 08:30:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
duration: 1800000
title: W med
Search for recurring events between: Fri Mar 22 2024 11:33:42 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) and Fri Mar 21 2025 23:59:59 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
Title: W med, with dates: [null,null,null,null,null,null,“2024-08-10T15:00:00.000Z”]
event.recurrences: [object Object]
recurring date is Sat Aug 10 2024 09:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) offset is 300
recurring date is Sat Aug 10 2024 09:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) offset is 5 Hour is 09
Corrected startDate: Sat Aug 10 2024 09:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
initial tz=America/Guatemala
corrected tz=America/Guatemala
start date/time=Sat Feb 24 2024 08:00:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
start offset=-360
start date/time w tz =Sat Feb 24 2024 08:00:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
event date=Sat Aug 10 2024 09:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
event offset=-360 hour=8 event date=Sat Aug 10 2024 09:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
adjustHours=0
duration: 1800000
saving event:

sdetweil

@lawrence_jeff said in Reoccurring Calendar Entries missing in native calendar:

Title: W med, with dates: [null,null,null,null,null,null,“2024-08-10T15:00:00.000Z”]

this is the rrule.between result.

each null is supposed to be a date/time

so, another rrule bug .