Re: [Evolution] Calandar Bugs

[Damon Chaplin <damon ximian com>]

sirkus wrote:
> Greetings fellow evo enthusiasts,
>     Using the 0.8 release from a helix-update (ie. not CVS) here are
> couple major bugs that I've hit that are somewhat primary to the
> calandar's function.   These may have been entered into Bugzilla, but I
> haven't found them or heard much of them in awhlie.
>
> 1- Hidden/Shifty calendar entries:  I've been trying to create a one
> hour calendar entry and it invariably is hidden from me in most views.
> I've attempted to make it into a 2 hour event, and for example, I wanted
> it to start at 5:30pm.  No matter how I enter it, it ends up at 6:30pm,
> and appears as one hour. If I physically drag the event to 5:30pm it
> dissapears, and then I have to go find it in another view.


Is someone taking care of this bug? Federico?

We've known about it since just before the last release. I'm fairly sure
its a bug in the latest libical (which is a library Evolution uses).



> 2- Time Format: 12hr/24hr support.  Although I can change this option to
> 12 hour (am/pm) format in the options, this doesn't seem to be supported
> in the "new appointment" entry dialog.  The drop down time dialog box
> still contains the 24hr format, and if I type times in manually in the
> 12hr am/pm format, it doesn't seem to be recognized.  And again, in my
> example above, if I entered a 2 hour appointment for 17:30 (5:30pm) it
> still shows up in the daily calendar as though it was entered for 6:30pm
> and is one hour long.  I'm not sure whether this is because it doesn't
> understand how to translate my entered time, or whether this is just
> part of bug #1 above.

Changing the format is trivial. I'll sort that out.

The other thing is because of the first bug.

Damon