596241 - Need recurrence pattern exception clause

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Marcus Yoo]

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How do you specify a recurrence pattern to say that the event should repeat every year except for every 4th year?
A particular example event that I'm trying to add is the primary election date for US/Pennsylvania, which says (something like)
- 3rd Tuesday of May, except
- in presidential election year (every 4th year), 4th Tuesday of April

If this is currently possible, can someone enlighten me?
If not, should this type of enhancements be made available?
An alternative for the above example is to create 4 separate events, each repeating every 4th year, with 3 identical ones and 1 slightly different.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

I don't think this is possible in one event in a compatible way. The obvious (technical) solution would be to use an EXRULE (exception rule) to not repeat every 4 years, but iirc EXRULE was deprecated in the latest rfc revision.

I think you'll have to stick with creating 4 events here, sorry.