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htsb
New Member  USA Joined: Feb 8, 2006 Posts: 6 Status: Offline |
My iCal feed was working great and then went dead yesterday and still dead today. Has this service been discontinued or something? How can I get it back?  To clarify, its not really dead, it just doesn't contain any of the events that are on my calendar. It looks like it contains only header type information. Here is where my iCal feed used to be; http://www.localendar.com/public/htsb?style=X2 ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by htsb at Nov 8, 2010, 8:09:26 PM] |
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support
localendar Expert  Joined: Aug 9, 2022 Posts: 6437 Status: Offline |
Please refresh the feed. There was a minor issue introduced when we embedded timezones in the iCal feed (to make sure DST was properly handled for apps like Outlook and Google calendar) ---------------------------------------- Marc Higgins Support Associate, localendar.com Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/localendar_news |
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htsb
New Member USA Joined: Feb 8, 2006 Posts: 6 Status: Offline |
OK, its better now but not complete. I have numerous future events that are not showing up in the iCal feed. I am only getting one weekly repeating event. You did say to "refresh the feed". Does that require some particular action on my part? Looking at the text of the iCal feed it contains quite a bit more information that it did a few days back when I called it "dead.. just header info". So I am thinking its "refreshed". In any case, I can now see numerous past events but only the one repeating event looking forward. There should be more future events in the iCal output. my iCal feed; http://www.localendar.com/public/htsb?style=X2 ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by htsb at Nov 10, 2010, 8:51:11 PM] |
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support
localendar Expert Joined: Aug 9, 2022 Posts: 6437 Status: Offline |
We pushed a fix this Sat for a bug related to a particular type of localendar event. Since your post was before that update, may I impose on you to check again and see if you still see any missing events? ---------------------------------------- Marc Higgins Support Associate, localendar.com Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/localendar_news |
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htsb
New Member USA Joined: Feb 8, 2006 Posts: 6 Status: Offline |
Checked again and it is better, i.e. more events are showing up in my iphone and google calendar subscription to this feed, but not all of them. Comparison between what iphone imports and google calendar imports is similar but not the same. Both are missing several repeating events. There is an all day event that shows up in the iphone and google calendar on the following day instead of the scheduled day. Based on a quick text search it seems that some of the ones not importing are listed in the iCal text but I'm no expert. In any case, it would seem that both google and iphone are not interpreting all of the iCal data they are getting from the localendar iCal feed for whatever reason and they also seem to be interpreting it differently. I didn't notice any issues like this about 3 weeks ago. There are no obvious differences between the events showing up and the events not showing up. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by htsb at Nov 17, 2010, 7:47:05 PM] |
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support
localendar Expert Joined: Aug 9, 2022 Posts: 6437 Status: Offline |
We'd like to track these down, of course and understand the discrepancies. If you can give me the name of a sample (repeating) event on your calendar that's not showing up on your Google calendar? ---------------------------------------- Marc Higgins Support Associate, localendar.com Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/localendar_news |
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htsb
New Member USA Joined: Feb 8, 2006 Posts: 6 Status: Offline |
One of the repeating events not importing into Google Calendar is: Choir Practice, 10 am Sundays repeats until March 2014. I notice the difference in the ICAL text between the events that import and the ones that don't seems to be associated with RRULE:FREQ=XXXX........ data. All the events not importing seem to be missing the RRULE data. Everything else in the ICAL text makes sense. Not sure I am parsing this right, but here is the Choir Practice event that does not import to google (it only imports the first occurrence): VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101201T220555Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080210T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080210T110000 SUMMARY:Choir Practice EXDATE;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100404T100000 DESCRIPTION:Meet in Parish Cathedral at 10:00 am LOCATION: UID:20110501T023724Z-37@ELSIE-CT1 END: |
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htsb
New Member USA Joined: Feb 8, 2006 Posts: 6 Status: Offline |
More on the all day event importing to google and iphone on the following day. The ICAL text is as follows: VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101201T220555Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101115 SUMMARY:EAM Adult Retreat DESCRIPTION:Special visit by Bishop Bruce. Details to follow. LOCATION: UID:20110501T023844Z-117@ELSIE-CT1 END: I am not familiar with the ICAL format conventions but based on the DTSTART, DTEND values above, the date of this all day event seems completely ambiguous. I can see why some might call it Nov 15 and some Nov 14. Is this really correct ICAL text for an all day event on Nov 14? |
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support
localendar Expert Joined: Aug 9, 2022 Posts: 6437 Status: Offline |
I know it seems crazy - but yes; that should be correct. You can enter a similar event on a Google calendar and export it and compare the text. We have seen different conventions used in Google, Outlook, and other products, but we have settled on Google and Outlook as out primary tests since they have the largest installed base combined. I'll do some more testing on our side to confirm, but we should be creating our All Day events the same way that Google created theirs. ---------------------------------------- Marc Higgins Support Associate, localendar.com Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/localendar_news ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by support at Dec 1, 2010, 10:26:35 PM] |
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support
localendar Expert Joined: Aug 9, 2022 Posts: 6437 Status: Offline |
Here's an All Day event on 12/14 that was created on, and exported from, a Google Calendar:
Note how it starts on the 14th, and ends on the 15th. Conceptually, you would think this must be a 2 day event.. But I believe the 15th is actually interpreted as "midnight on the 14th". Likewise, the 14th is also "midnight on the 13th". Between those times is actually the Full Day of the 14th. In any case, we're giving Google back what it spits out, so those All Day events should be interpreted correctly. Still looking into your RRULE question. ---------------------------------------- Marc Higgins Support Associate, localendar.com Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/localendar_news |
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