MMM-Calendar always shows 23:59 if showEndTime: True

[sdetweil]

@SwissChemist

no the one I am fighting from Australia

meeting at 09/28/20, 08:30
utc is 09/27/20, 22:30

rule detemines today is valid DATE
takes todays date 09/28, with yesterdays time 22:30
oops…

[sdetweil]

@sdetweil so, your 1st entry is confusing… label is
SUMMARY:Monthly 17-18
but the cal entry says
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201002T170000, Oct 02, 1700 local, 1500 utz

[sdetweil]

also, showEnd is a pain… technically the clock is day:00:00 to day 23:59 as 23:59+1 is 24:00/00:00 which is the next day

so, what do you think we should be showing there…

[sdetweil]

@SwissChemist want to try a fix for me…

edited: changed added line

edit the ~/MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/calendarfetcher.js
find this (approx line 240) and add the one line listed below

						// Loop through the set of date entries to see which recurrences should be added to our event list.
						for (let d in dates) {
							const date = dates[d];
							// ical.js started returning recurrences and exdates as ISOStrings without time information.
							// .toISOString().substring(0,10) is the method they use to calculate keys, so we'll do the same
							// (see https://github.com/peterbraden/ical.js/pull/84 )
							const dateKey = date.toISOString().substring(0, 10);
							let curEvent = event;
							let showRecurrence = true;
							let duration = 0;

							startDate = moment(date);
							duration = parseInt(moment(curEvent.end).format("x")) - parseInt(moment(curEvent.start).format("x")) // --- add this line

in your timezone (mine is Sep 28, 17:15)

[SwissChemist]

Hello Sam,
thanks very much for your great support.
Good news is that the endTime issue is solved now!

Nevertheless with recurring whole day events, the following entries are not correct yet:

3-weekly 13-14 is completely missing (should be 1.Okt)

Starting with the 3-weekly whole day 22.Okt (should be 21.Okt), every following ‘whole day meeting’ is shown one day too late.
You can easily see that even on your picture, as e.g. the 3-weekly whole day and the 3-weekly 13-14 should always take place at the same date.

Even on your picture this is not the case… monthly whole day is shown in 3 days, monthly 17-18 is shown in 4 days.

Once more, thanks for your great support so far!

[sdetweil]

yeh, that whole day thing… the spec says its whole day in the timezone where the computer is.
but the ical converter still adjusts it to UTC. (all parsed events are in UTC)

3-weekly 13-14 is completely missing (should be 1.Okt)
can’t be cause u asked for WEdnesdays

BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20200928T173050Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201002
DTSTAMP:20200928T182733Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201001
LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T182732Z
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=3;BYDAY=WE  < ----
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:3-weekly whole day
UID:E2C82F47-1E0F-4FD0-93C4-746B2D53488B
URL;VALUE=URI:
END:VEVENT

so , this repeating event might start on Oct 1, but thats a thursday, so will not be shown

but later, Starting with the 3-weekly whole day 22.Okt (should be 21.Okt),
starts on 21+1 days from today 00:00:00 Oct 21, and ends on Oct 22

this is a fix in the ical parser… so, it will take time to get out…

[sdetweil]

can we try another quick fix?

in calendar.js

				// Define second, minute, hour, and day variables
				var oneSecond = 1000; // 1,000 milliseconds
				var oneMinute = oneSecond * 60;
				var oneHour = oneMinute * 60;
				var oneDay = oneHour * 24;
				if (event.fullDayEvent) {
					//subtract one second so that fullDayEvents end at 23:59:59, and not at 0:00:00 one the next day
					//event.endDate -= oneSecond;   < ---- comment out this one line

[SwissChemist]

@sdetweil
maybe you expected already that now the endTime of each whole day event is shown one day too late. Without that fix, it has been correct.

Regarding the ‘3-weekly whole day’ you gave me a perfect hint: As it is a user configured interval, you have to take care that begin of the event and day of the week you select as interval correspond. So if you configure it wrong, corresponding event will obviously not be shown, as you explained perfectly from your code analysis…

[SwissChemist]

@sdetweil
I would not mind to see 23:59 as end of a whole day event, but it would also be fine for me to see the day where it starts again…

[sdetweil]

@SwissChemist finding an acceptable “end” marker for “full day” event is challenging.

it certainly ends when the next day starts.