1691470 - calendar Repeat (eg weekly) does not operate correctly; the end date (Until) is ignored and always gets replaced by "Forever".

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Calendar :: Dialogs, defect)

Description

[john]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36 Edg/88.0.705.63

Steps to reproduce:

With repeat option set to weekly, I entered an end date in the Until box.

Actual results:

After save and close, the event was listed weekly forever. I re-opened the edit window, and the Until box now displays "forever". My entered date had been overruled.

Expected results:

The weekly events should have stopped after the ending date I entered.

Comment 1

[john]

I don't know if this is the correct forum. I can't find a Lightning Calendar bug submission page. If necessary please pass it on to the correct place.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to john from comment #1)

I don't know if this is the correct forum. I can't find a Lightning Calendar bug submission page. If necessary please pass it on to the correct place.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Calendar

Comment 3

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

I could not reproduce using Thunderbird 78.7.1 or Windows 10 or 78.7.0 on Fedora 33 Workstation.

Created a test event in my Home calendar that starts on 02/10 @ 5 pm.
Set repeat to Weekly until 03/10.
Saved and Closed the dialog.
Checked all views and the event only repeats weekly on every Wednesday until 03/10.

Repeated the operation with my Google CalDAV calendar and no issue seen.

Comment 4

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

John, can you please check the behavior with the most recent release, Thunderbird 78.8.1? This could be a duplicate of bug 1686466, although the bug title suggests otherwise.

Comment 5

[john]

Martin, thanks for your response. I have upgraded Thunderbird to 78.8.1 and retested it. The symptoms now are still exactly the same as in my original submission of this bug, so no improvement.