[kronolith] All Day Marking and Android

[Simon Brereton]

On 2 December 2011 06:02, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
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> Zitat von Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I've noticed (or at least been able to replicate with 2 different
>> accounts/devices) that when syncing all-day Kronotlith events (such as
>> birthdays or vacations) that they show up in the Android device as 24
>> hour events (meaning that the entire 24 hours is blocked out instead
>> of just the notification across the top of the day concerned.  If you
>> then edit the event on the Android event to be full-day (it is not
>> shown as ticked) and save it, it displays correctly, with no apparent
>> change on the server and future synchronisations of that event (say if
>> you move it, or sync to another Android device) work as intended.  Is
>> this a bug?  Because I'm not looking forward to editing the 50-odd
>> full-day events in my calendar by hand.  Nor am I looking forward to
>> telling my users to do this if they want it to look the same as the
>> full-day even created on the phone.  In my opinion event's in
>> Kronolith marked as all-day events should show up on the phone not
>> blocking out all 24 hours.
>>
>> Whilst in the edit-event view on the device the repetition is shown as
>> : Custom (cannot customise on phone).  But if I change it to yearly
>> (or monthly) on the device and save it again it appears to not make a
>> change to the server but will show up correctly on future
>> synchronisations.  The repetition should show up as weekly, monthly,
>> yearly (for example, Yearly (on November 28) ) as needed and not as
>> custom.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a sync issues (and therefore on the wrong
>> list) or a bug in the way these events are stored and therefore a
>> Kronolith issue.
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>
> You didn't even mention how you synchronize and which client you use.

oops.  Sorry.  I forget not everyone is using ActiveSync.

So, I'm using ActiveSync and  Motorola Defy running Android 2.3.5

Simon