1797648 - USHoliday.ics calendar contains error for "US General Election" entry

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill Wayson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add the U.S. Holidays calendar for 2022 by linking to the calendar at https://www.thunderbird.net/media/caldata/USHolidays.ics
2. Note that the U.S. Election day is shown on November 1, 2022.
3. Open the event and note that the "Repeat" description reads, "Occurs the first Tuesday of every November effective 11/2/21 for 10 times."

Actual results:

For the year 2022, Election Day is shown on November 1.

Expected results:

In 2022, the U.S. Election Day actually occurs on November 8.

The correct repeat pattern is that it occurs the first Tuesday after the first Monday of every November.

Admittedly, a very minor bug.

Comment 1

[Bill Wayson]

I forgot to add that this is similar to a very old bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526073.

Comment 2

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Resolving as WONTFIX as holiday calendar updates are handled elsewhere now.

Please contribute your holiday calendar file by using following new process:

Contributing a Holiday Calendar

If you would like to send us your calendar files, please follow these steps:

1. Create a new local calendar, e.g. "$Country$ Holidays".
2. Create the different holidays of your country in this local calendar.
3. Right-click on this calendar and choose "Export Calendar". Please use the iCalendar (ics) format.
4. Create a Pull Request or file an Issue on the website repository (https://github.com/thundernest/thunderbird-website) and attach your holiday file.