257441 - events from 2 years ago should not trigger alarms - ever!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212076

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[JT Moree]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

Every time I try out mozilla it get nowhere because i try to import my calendar
which I have been using in Korganizer for 3 years or more.  Sunbird/calendar
always barfs and crashes over and over again because of the vast amounts of
alarms being generated.  I get to acknowled a few and then it hangs for a long
time.  Messages popup saying i can kill this script bc it is making mozilla run
slowly and I do.  and so on.

My point is,  I NEVER want to see alarms from Jul 18, 2002.  It is stupid.  The
calendar app should have a default period of time that it ignores alarms if they
are before it.  Such as 2 months.

Issues like this have been discussed in bugs like
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212076
but I dont see this suggestion to fix the problems. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. import a calendar with years of data
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
sunbird becomes unstable

Expected Results:  
ignored old events

Comment 1

[Martin Bagge / brother]

This is loosely related to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212076

Comment 2

[JT Moree]

Yes, notice i mentioned that specifically in the text of the post.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212076 ***

Comment 4

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

The suggested solution here is wrong imho. The general rule in programming is to
not introduce magic numbers if not strcitly limited. Why 2 years and not 1 year?
why not 1 month?
So, instead of adding arbitrary limits, let's just make sure the alarms doesn't
cause hangs.

(and if you disagree with a dup, please comment in the original bug, not the bug
it was duped to. If the dup really was wrong, you made offtopic comments in the
other bug)

Comment 5

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!