#7 Problems with recurring events

[Jon Blower]

I have noticed two problems with recurring events.
These problems cause the generated .ics file to be
misread by Google Calendar (and perhaps others).

1) For yearly-repeating events there is a spurious
"BYDAY=" element in the RRULE. This causes the event
not to appear in Google Calendar.

2) For daily-repeating events the UNTIL clause needs a
trailing Z to denote UTC, otherwise Google Calendar
does not display the repeats. In other words:

RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20060824T235959;INTERVAL=1

should read:

RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20060824T235959Z;INTERVAL=1

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I had trouble importing a calendar which contains only recurring events into Lightning (Thunderbird extension). I made the two changes suggested here, but this does not help. I think the difficulty may be with Lightning... Paolo

[Iain Shepherd]

I also experience problem (1) identified by Jon above.

(I do however find that Google Calendar is reporting the error. "Failed to import events: Unable to process your ical/CSV file.. Error at line XXXXX" - possibly this is an enhancement in Calendar since when Jon reported this back in 2006...)