[Owncloud] Owncloud calendar not showing some events in the web interface

[Randolph Carter]

Hi,

I also created an issue in the github apps issue tracker for this:
https://github.com/owncloud/apps/issues/58

Best regards,
Randolph

Am 31.01.2013 22:41, schrieb Sagar Behere:
> Hello,
>
> I will describe a solution I found (it is not my solution, but the
> original source is not in English) to a problem I faced when using the
> owncloud calendar. Am posting it here, so that others will find it via
> google.
>
> The problem is that certain calendar events are not shown when viewing
> the calendar through a browser. The same calendar events are shown
> properly if you subscribe to the calendar via Thunderbird+Lightning, or
> any other calendar software.
>
> I am using owncloud v 4.5.5 on a debian squeeze amd64 box.
>
> The problem is that the .ics file I uploaded to initially populate the
> calendar entries was apparently faulty. Some of the entries had
> incorrect timezone data, and instead of showing those entries in the
> browser, I found the following in the apache error.log
> ----
> [Thu Jan 31 21:25:17 2013] [error] [client 213.103.196.57] PHP Fatal
> error:  Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message
> '00001231T000000Z is not a valid DateTime or Date string' in
> /var/www/owncloud/3rdparty/Sabre/VObject/Property/DateTime.php:170\nStack trace:\n#0
> /var/www/owncloud/3rdparty/Sabre/VObject/Property/DateTime.php(140):
> Sabre_VObject_Property_DateTime::parseData('00001231T000000...',
> Object(Sabre_VObject_Property_DateTime))\n#1
> /var/www/owncloud/3rdparty/Sabre/VObject/Component/VCalendar.php(118):
> Sabre_VObject_Property_DateTime->getDateType()\n#2 [internal function]:
> Sabre_VObject_Component_VCalendar->expand(Object(DateTime),
> Object(DateTime))\n#3 /var/www/owncloud/lib/vobject.php(205):
> call_user_func_array(Array, Array)\n#4
> /var/www/owncloud/apps/calendar/lib/app.php(410):
> OC_VObject->__call('expand', Array)\n#5
> /var/www/owncloud/apps/calendar/lib/app.php(410):
> OC_VObject->expand(Object(DateTime), Object(DateTime))\n#6
> /var/www/owncloud/apps/calendar/ajax/events.php(28):
> OC_Calendar_App::generateEventOutput(Array, Object(DateTime),
> Object(DateTime))\n#7 /var/www/ in
> /var/www/owncloud/3rdparty/Sabre/VObject/Property/DateTime.php on line
> 170, referer: http://<website-name-removed>/owncloud/?app=calendar
> ----
>
> Now, I don't even know how those faulty entries were created (IF they
> are faulty. Everything works fine with all my other calendaring
> software). And even if the entries were faulty, silently preventing
> certain entries from being visible is NOT good.
>
> A similar problem was posted on the Forums
>
> http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4686
>
> But apparently this did not improve anything.
>
> I finally found a solution, when I stumbled upon this page
>
> http://glumpundzeug.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/owncloud-migration-v3-auf-4-5-6-ical-import-schlagt-fehl/
>
>
> (I don't understand what is written there) but using
>
> sed -i 's/CREATED:0000/CREATED:1970/g' myfile.ics
>
> and then reuploading the modified .ics file fixed the problem.
>
> I hope this post helps someone and that this issue gets fixed, or that
> the code is modified to report the failure noisily to the user.
>
> Regards,
> Sagar
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