[Kroupware] korganizer extends appointments

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Thursday 27 February 2003 17:32, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 17:53, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 16:30, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> > > Hello Folks
> > > after having installed kroupware from cvs
> > > pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:/home/kde
> > > as kdepim and kdenetwork I am having problems all over the place.
> > > The most serious one is that korganizer extends multiday events
> > > by one day, apparently each time the calendar is read.
> > > The same seems to happen with repeated events like birthdays:
> > > korganizer suggest to have birthday parties that last 2,3 or five
> > > days.
> > >
> > > I am using a calendar file from some earlier korganizer.
> > >
> > > Any idea of what is going on? Or is the kroupware korganizer not
> > > fit for use?
> >
> > My guess would be that the version from the ProductID field isn't
> > correctly read in the kroupware branch (see korganizer/compat.cpp).
> > Older versions of KOrganizer didn't write a correct end date for
> > events without time. Newer do, so if a file written by the current
> > version is incorrectly detected to be written by an older version,
> > the day is added.
>
> But this would imply that once the extended appointment has been
> corrected it should not get longer again in following calls of
> korganizer. Is that correct?

That's how it is supposed to work and how it works in the main branch. 
If kroupware incorrectly treats its own saved files as old ones it will 
extend the events again and again.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>