395095 - Events and tasks display wrong time in all views (weekly, monthly and agenda)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[john lovely]

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Build Identifier: 2007062404

Lightning displays a DEFAULT END TIME in the agenda and calendar views instead of the SCHEDULED START TIME. (ie in a scheduling program we want to know when the appointment STARTS so we get there on time, not when it ends so we can send apologies for not attending)




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open dialog to enter an event or task, single or recurring
   (doesn't matter how - double click a date or use menu File->New->Task)
2. Enter a start time for the event or task.
3. Lightning automatically enters a value of start date plus 1 hour (probably the DEFAULT APPOINTMENT DURATION) as the due time. (lets call this DEFAULT ENDTIME)
4. Edit end time to (say) start time plus 15 minutes.
5. Dialog now displays event or task correctly with start and end times so press OK to save new event/task.
6. Event will appear in Weekly Calendar view, Monthly Calendar view and Agenda list with the DEFAULT ENDTIME displayed instead of the expected START TIME.
7. Editing either start or end time will not fix the problem as the displayed time is actually the auto generated DEFAULT value. ALSO the  

Actual Results:  
Calendar and Agenda display DEFAULT END TIME

Expected Results:  
Calendar and Agenda display SCHEDULED START TIME

There are a number of issues here - 

FIRST Lightning is displaying the wrong field (END TIME instead of START TIME).

SECOND the DEFAULT END TIME has no meaning outside the dialog and is a calculated value for the SCHEDULED END TIME. This value should not be stored in the database at all! The SCHEDULED END TIME field should be set to the default value and the DEFAULT END TIME value should be discarded.

THIRD: In a recurring task, once the first event/task has been set with a duration of (say) 15 minutes, editing the START TIME of a subsequent occurrence of the repeating event/task will cause the automatic generation of a new END TIME which is start time plus 15 minutes (as expected) BUT the displayed time in agenda/calendar views is still the new START TIME plus the DEFAULT APPOINTMENT DURATION.

Comment 1

[john lovely]

Wrong timezone set. Apparently all times are entered in local time (ie Australian Eastern Standard Time) and displayed in the timezone registered in Lightning setup (which I hadn't changed from the default of Abidjan??

So while alarms and dialogs work corectly off the computer clock, the display is wrong.

Setting the timezone in the setup dialog to AEST to match computer timezone corrects display. 

Call it resolved as timezone issues seem to be subject of other bugs