295969 - Cannot schedule a recurring holiday as "second to last week of month"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 233189

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Rothenberg]

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Unable to schedule a holiday as recurring on the "second to last week of the
month" in Sunbird calendar.

For example, local Scottish holidays such as Victoria Day in Edinburgh (which
seems to be second to last Monday of May each year).

Note that there is the ability to schedule every nth Monday of a month, and the
last Monday of the month, since some months have 5 Mondays. But there is no
corresponding way to schedule the last nth Monday of the month for n>1.

That said, I do not know if this is solvable due to limitations of the iCal
standard, but it seems from RFC 2445 that negative values for recurrence rules
are allowed.

I consider this a bug rather than enhancement because there is no way to
schedule this from within Sunbird.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

*** Bug 295968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Joey Minta]

Robert:
   Please remember to search Bugzilla thoroughly before filling a bug report.  A
quick search for the term 'second' would pull up bug 233189 which asks for
exactly the same thing you're asking for.  Please look over that bug and resolve
this one as a duplicate if you agree.

Comment 3

[Robert Rothenberg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233189 ***

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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