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I am having problems with the Ical feed button at the bottom of the monthly calendar. When we press on the ICAL feed button, it downloads only that day's events, rather than all the events for that month. The calendar is on http://newcovfellowship.com/calendar-6/ and it appears to only do it when saving to my andriod or my friend's iphone, but not outlook express's calendar on my laptop.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?
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The ical feed actually downloads *all* of the events on your calendar, not just today's and not just the months. If you were to save the file locally and open it up in a text editor, you would see all your events are in there, along with the ical-notation for how and when they repeat.

Now, what a third-party program actually does with that feed is out of our control. If you are having a problem syncing an iCal feed to your phone's calendar, you will probably have to search Google and see how their calendar is configured to handle imports.

My understanding is that the Android calendar is basically the same calendar Google has online, and that *will* sync all events (forever). There might be some settings you need to change.
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Thanks for the info. It is doing it with both my Android and Google Calendar, my client's Iphone, using Ical, and my laptop using Outlook Express. There are missing entries and there are dates that are wrong. For example, I entered an event for Oct. 4 and 5, but it shows up on my Outlook Express calendar and Oct. 5 and 6. In addition, when I downloaded the file to notepad, the dates were changed to Oct. 5 and 6, so that seems to indicate a problem with Localendar, rather than our calendar's feeds. Any insight?

The website is http://newcovfellowship.com/calendar-6/, if you'd like to try it out.

BTW, I changed my username, thus the reason I am replying using this name. Thanks for any help you can give. I really liked the calendar app a lot, so I'm hoping we can resolve the issues with the feeds.
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Perhaps you can give me examples from your calendar about events that are missing, and which have "incorrect" times. I should mention that there are some irregularities with how different sites interpret iCal, and we have chosen to adher to Google's conventions as closely as possible.

I looked at one sample event from your calendar:
 
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140827T154608Z
SUMMARY:Church Service
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140824
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140825
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20180824;BYDAY=SU
EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20140831
DESCRIPTION:9:30 - Sunday School 10:30 - Church Service
LOCATION:2510 West Courthouse Road\, Crewe\, VA 23930
UID:20141222T211733Z-1@ELSIE-CT3
END:VEVENT

Note the DTSTART and DTEND. That is how you would represent an event that takes All Day on the 24th of Aug. And I see it representing on your calendar that way as well.
I could not find an Oct 4+5 event on your calendar (at least, not in a single event)
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Thanks again for looking at this.

The event begins Oct. 3 and ends Oct. 4th, as shown on our calendar: http://newcovfellowship.com/calendar-6/. However, when I press the ICAL feed, it displays it as a one day event, but for Oct. 5... rather than Oct. 3 or Oct. 4.

When I entered the event, I entered the start date as Friday, October 3 and asked it to repeat the event until Saturday, October 4. It shows up correctly under the website's calendar, but the ICAL feed changes the date as a one day event for Oct. 5. Here is the ICAL feed:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140828T014450Z
SUMMARY:2014 Fall Festival at NCF
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141006
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20141004;BYDAY=SU,MO,TU,WE,TH,FR,SA
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our annual fall festival\, to be held at the
grounds of New Covenant Fellowship on Friday\, Oct. 3\, and Saturday\, Oc
t. 4. We will have our annual pig pickin' meal on Saturday\, Oct. 4\, wit
h activities all day for the whole family.
LOCATION:2510 West Courthouse Road\, Crewe\, VA 23930
UID:20140923T065412Z-1@ELSIE-CT3
END:VEVENT

In addition: the following events are not appearing when clicking on the ICAL feed:

Sunday, September 7 - Fellowship Meal after the service
Thursday, October 16 - Missions Meeting
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Hmm.. I see different text in the feed when I look at it. For the Oct 4th event, I see this:
 
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140903T012149Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141003T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141004T173000
SUMMARY:2014 Fall Festival at NCF
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20141004;BYDAY=SU,MO,TU,WE,TH,FR,SA
EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20141003T183000
EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20141004T183000
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our annual fall festival\, to be held at the
grounds of New Covenant Fellowship on Friday\, Oct. 3\, and Saturday\, Oc
t. 4.  We will have our annual pig pickin' meal on Saturday\, Oct. 4\, wit
h activities all day for the whole family.  Bring the family and your tent
! Schedule of events: Friday night: 6:30 pm - Open Grill (Each family is r
esponsible for own meat and a dish to share) 8:30 pm - Worship around the
campfire and S'mores 11:00 pm - Campers lights out   Saturday schedule: 7:
30 am - Continental Breakfast for Campers 10:00 am - Organized Games Begin
12:30 pm - Lunch is served Menu: BBQ Pork and Chicken\, Baked Beans\, Col
eslaw\, Mac N Cheese\, Hushpuppies\, Rolls\, Desserts\, Tea (Suggested Don
ation is $7 per adult\, $5 children 5 and up.)
LOCATION:2510 West Courthouse Road\, Crewe\, VA 23930
UID:20140907T132412Z-1@ELSIE-CT3
END:VEVENT


It is odd that the DTStart and DTEnd dates you posted do not look like the raw feed I posted above. Did you edit them manually, or are you using some other program to inspect the feed?

You can also see from the dates I posted above that it goes from Oct 3 to Oct 4, as shown on your calendar.

The 9/7 event is there:
 
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140903T012149Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140907
SUMMARY:Fellowship Meal after the service
DESCRIPTION:Please bring a covered dish to share and join us for fellowship
meal!  This meal will be held at the pavilion\, so please bring only a co
ld dish or a crockpot meal.  We will have games afterwards\, so come spend
the afternoon!
LOCATION:2510 West Courthouse Road\, Crewe\, VA 23930
UID:20140907T132414Z-1@ELSIE-CT3
END:VEVENT


as is the Oct 16 one:
 
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20140903T012149Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141016
SUMMARY:Missions Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
LOCATION:
UID:20140907T132410Z-1@ELSIE-CT3
END:VEVENT

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