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jazzband / django-recurrence

Utility for working with recurring dates in Django.
https://django-recurrence.readthedocs.org/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Support creation meetings in the past (via DTSTART) #293

Closed striveforbest closed 1 month ago

striveforbest commented 5 months ago

There is no way to create meetings in the past (think when updating a recurring meeting and selecting "All Meetings" on save in any calendar app). ![Uploading Screenshot 2024-06-20 at 10.25.49 AM.png…]()

Per RFC 5545, the start datetime can be provided in the recurrence like so:

  1. Daily for 10 occurrences: 
    DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19970902T090000
RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=10

resulting in

 ==> (1997 9:00 AM EDT) September 2-11
  1. Daily until December 24, 1997: 
    DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19970902T090000
RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=19971224T000000Z

    resulting in

    ==> (1997 9:00 AM EDT) September 2-30;October 1-25
 (1997 9:00 AM EST) October 26-31;November 1-30;December 1-23
lino commented 1 month ago

Hey, somehow your Screenshot did not upload (or I'm too thick to get it to show), I guess you're talking about the widget?

striveforbest commented 1 month ago

Hey, somehow your Screenshot did not upload (or I'm too thick to get it to show), I guess you're talking about the widget?

Hmmm, something went wrong with the screenshot, unfortunately. But no, I'm not talking about the widget specifically. Overall the library doesn't support creating meetings in the past via DTSTART.

striveforbest commented 1 month ago

can't replicate rn, i'll close for now, thanks.