[kronolith] All Day Marking and Android

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:

> On 2 December 2011 10:17, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
>>
>>> On 2 December 2011 06:02, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zitat von Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>>
>> Works fine here on a Milstone (Droid) with 2.3.7.
>
> Can I assume your server is in the same time-zone as your device?

Yes. Though more important might be what your preference settings for  
your time zone are. This should still not influence the outcoming  
though.

Jan.

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