ICal and Leap Year
I had set up a yearly recurring event for a birthday notification for Feb 29 (Leap Year) with a Alarm notification 6 days in advance of the day so I could be sure to send out a card in time, etc. etc. However, because there is no Feb 29 in calendar year 2010 it appears that the Alarm notification isn't working. Is this a bug or did I possibly do something wrong?
Yes, I noticed this the other day but didn't make a connection with the US holidays. Odd quirk.
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ICal bug -- leap year has broken reoccuring events
Since last week , when there were 29 days in February instead of 28, events in iCal which are re-occuring (a meeting which occurs every month on the second Monday for example) is simply wrong.
It is clear that this is an artifact of "Leap Year." The error compounds.
In March in was off by one day -- scheduled on Tuesday instead of Monday. In April the error compounds... now scheduled on Friday in April.
Events which were scheduled by data "appear" to be correct, but now I don't know that I can even trust them.
This problem propigates through iCloud and infects my iPhone and iPads as well.
iMac 10.7.3
iPhone 5.1
iPad 5.1
Mac mini 10.6.8
It turns out this Bug dates back to 2008!!!!!
https://discussions.apple.com/message/6309125#6309125No. not really.
I spent some time on the phone with Apple support and basically discovered that if I looked at the reoccurring event back in February (the previous month), it showed up correctly as an event being repeated as, in my case, "Custom, Every Month on the first Monday." However, then comparing that entry to the incorrect March entry, I noted the March entry was showing up as repeat "Every Month." (Which translated into every 30 or 31 days, looking at subsequent events.)
Simply changing the bad March event back to the Custom "Every Month on the First Monday," and then applying it to the forward "worked around" the issue.
We never did come up with any idea what caused the change. (i.e. the support person could find no references to any kind of similar problem.)
I was told to go to "www.apple.com/feedback" and to select "iCal" from the list of "OS C Apps" near the bottom of the page, and report the problem. -
Function CALCULATE_DATE and leap year
Hi,
I need to substract some months from a date. I tried to use the standard function CALCULATE_DATE but it has a proble with leap years. If I execute it with the following parameters:
CALL FUNCTION 'CALCULATE_DATE'
EXPORTING
days = '0'
months = '-24'
start_date = '20080229'
IMPORTING
result_date = X.
The value that I get in X is '00000000' because 2006 isn't a leap year. The problem is that the function doesn't know how to deal with this. The solution is very easy, buy if it's possible I would like to use a standard function.
Do you know if there are any standard function that has no problems with leap years?
Thanks and kind regards,
Marcela.Hi Marcela,
Welcome to SDN.
You can try this FM <b>RP_CALC_DATE_IN_INTERVAL</b>.
data: wa_date like sy-datum.
call function 'RP_CALC_DATE_IN_INTERVAL'
exporting
date = '20080229'
days = 0
months = 24
signum = '-'
years = 0
importing
calc_date = wa_date.
Hope this will help.
Regards,
Ferry Lianto -
Bug with interval and leap years
select to_date('2012-feb-29','yyyy-mon-dd') + interval '1' year as dt from dual;
ORA-01839: date not valid for month specified
01839. 00000 - "date not valid for month specified"
*Cause:
*Action:
select to_date('2012-feb-29','yyyy-mon-dd') + interval '2' year as dt from dual;
ORA-01839: date not valid for month specified
01839. 00000 - "date not valid for month specified"
*Cause:
*Action:
select to_date('2012-feb-29','yyyy-mon-dd') + interval '3' year as dt from dual;
ORA-01839: date not valid for month specified
01839. 00000 - "date not valid for month specified"
*Cause:
*Action:
select to_date('2012-feb-29','yyyy-mon-dd') + interval '4' year as dt from dual;
29-FEB-16 00:00:00
select to_date('2012-feb-29','yyyy-mon-dd') + interval '1' day as dt from dual;
01-MAR-12 00:00:00
select to_date('2012-feb-29','yyyy-mon-dd') + interval '1' month as dt from dual;
29-MAR-12 00:00:00The problem exists in 10.2.0.4 and 11.2.0.3
Edited by: Sanjeev Chauhan on Feb 29, 2012 9:20 AM>
considering this answered is simply sweeping an issue under the rug.
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No - the question was answered. Did you read the reference that Paul cited? That is an ISO document and defines the standard.
The section he referred to is General Rules 3b and states:
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b) Arithmetic is performed so as to maintain the integrity of the datetime data type that
is the result of the <datetime value expression>. This may involve carry from or to the
immediately next more significant <datetime field>. If the data type of the <datetime value
expression> is TIME, then arithmetic on the HOUR <datetime field> is undertaken modulo
24. If the <interval value expression> or <interval term> is a year-month interval, then the
DAY field of the result is the same as the DAY field of the <datetime term> or <datetime
value expression>.
c) If, after the preceding step, any <datetime field> of the result is outside the permissible
range of values for the field or the result is invalid based on the natural rules for dates and
times, then an exception condition is raised: data exception—datetime field overflow.
Note: For the permissible range of values for <datetime field>s, see Table 11, "Valid values for fields
in datetime items".
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The relevant part of the above for year-month is
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then the
DAY field of the result is the same as the DAY field of the <datetime term> or <datetime
value expression>.
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DAY FIELD OF THE RESULT IS THE SAME AS THE DAY FIELD OF THE <DATETIME TERM>.
That is, for 'year-month' the day cannot change and, per section c, if it does an exception is raised.
That is how Oracle implements it. If the other databases implement it incorrectly then they have the problem not Oracle. The question was regarding Oracle's implementation so the question for Oracle is answered.
That document was printed in 1994 but the current document, ISO-8601 2004, does not alter it at all.
http://dotat.at/tmp/ISO_8601-2004_E.pdf -
Time dimension wizard and leap year error?
I've created a time dimension (rolap) using the wizard. I started with 2006 for 6 years. I used a fiscal calendar, 445, fiscal year start = jan 1, and month start = monday.
The first 2 months of 2008 are ok. However, OWB ends the third month on March 31, 2008 and it should be March 30, 2008. It starts the next month on April 1, 2008 which is a Tuesday.
I've tested with 10.2 and 11.1.
Anybody seen this or have a solution?
GarrettGarrett
The start day that you specified as being Monday is in fact the week start day and not the month start day. In most cases these will both always land on the day of week you specify, but there are exceptions.
The Fiscal year is split into Quarters and the start of each Quarter is based on the date of the start of the year, so if you started the year at Jan 6th, then the 2nd quarter will start on April 6th, and the third on July 6th and so on.
In your case, an extra day is inserted in the 5th week of the first quarter so that the quarter can start at the correct date -
HELP! Files won't open and previously had Firefox icon instead of DW icons! Leap Year thing?
Hi! I went to update my website, which I do every night before the first day of every month and all the files had a FIrefox icon instead of the usual Dreamweaver one. I have shut down, reinstalled DW MX 2004 but the files still do not open. The icons have now changed to DW but they are not opening with right click, opening from Applications folder, double clicking the file, from get info and open with DW. I am stumped. HELP! Need to update for March 1st.
Is it something to do with Leap Year 29th Feb? Checked the clock in preferences but can't see how this affects it.
Firefox is always updated but the latest version does not seem to be as efficient as previous upgrades. We installed Chrome as well. Do they interfere with each other?Hi Ken
I wish the 7.1 updater download had helped but it didn¹t. All the files
were backed up before the installation, which went fine.
Mac 10.5.8
We used Disc Warrior to defrag the hard drive, which did not make a
difference.
We recently started using Chrome, so now have 3 browsers in the dock,
Safari, Firefox and Chrome. Do they interfere in any way with each other?
The files, which I hadn¹t touched for a month as I update on a monthly
basis, initially had the Firefox icon.
Below is the message to send to Apple, which did not go through their report
system! A little disillusioned with the service!
Model: iMac9,1, BootROM IM91.008D.B08, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.06
GHz, 4 GB
Graphics: kHW_NVidiaGeForceGT130Item, NVIDIA GeForce GT 130,
spdisplays_pcie_device, 512 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E),
Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.22)
Bluetooth: Version 2.1.9f10, 2 service, 0 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD1001FALS-40K1B0, 931.51 GB
Serial ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTS08
USB Device: Built-in iSight, (null) mA
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, (null) mA
USB Device: iLok, (null) mA
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, (null) mA
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, (null) mA
USB Device: Deskjet 3840, (null) mA
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, (null) mA
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, (null) mA
USB Device: IR Receiver, (null) mA
FireWire Device: d2 quadra (button), LaCie, 800mbit_speed
Does not mean a thing to me.
I am not late with updating the site, which is about New Zealand culture,
month by month (www.englishteacher.co.nz). Probably only the third time I
have been late since 2005. Not a huge amount of traffic, ~300 a month and
free access to content but I would like to solve this problem.
Could a reciprocal link have caused a problem?
At my wits end.
I really appreciate the help though.
Cheers Yvonne
From: Ken Binney <[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:42:11 -0700
To: Yvonne and Bill Hynson <[email protected]>
Subject: HELP! Files won't open and previously had Firefox
icon instead of DW icons! Leap Year thing?
Re: HELP! Files won't open and previously had Firefox icon instead of DW
icons! Leap Year thing?
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I am using iOS devices in Hong Kong, and subscribed iCloud service through the US App Store a year ago. Ever since, all my iCal and photostream invitaion emails to my friends are generated in Japanese, though my iOS language is set in English! How can I change the email language to English? None of my friends understand Japanese.
I am using iOS devices in Hong Kong, and subscribed iCloud service through the US App Store a year ago. Ever since, all my iCal and photostream invitaion emails to my friends are generated in Japanese, though my iOS language is set in English! How can I change the email language to English? None of my friends understand Japanese.
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Leap Year and Schema & Rules on Time Management
Hello,
On Time management, do you know how to configure on Schema & Rules if the year is a leap year?
Thanks, julien
Edited by: Julien on May 6, 2009 6:33 PMThanks for all,
My solution below :
ZFA/ 008 ACTIO ZFAF Leap Year
ZFAF***** PPCYGZFA1 NEXTR A
ZFAF***** APPCYGZFA2 NEXTR B
ZFAF***** BPPCYGZFA3 NEXTR C
ZFAF***** CZPAYTP 1
ZFAF1**** DHRS=DINR2 HRS-DINR4 HRS+DINR6 ADDDBINR7ZHRS?1
ZFAF1***** HRS=365 ADDDBINJAZ
ZFAF1****= HRS=366 ADDDBINJAZ
ZFA1***** ZHRS=BCURYRHRS/400 ADDDBINR1ZROUNDH>60 PAYTP 1
ZFA11**** DHRS?DINR1
ZFA11***** HRS=0 ADDDBINR2Z
ZFA11****= HRS=1 ADDDBINR2Z
ZFA2***** ZHRS=BCURYRHRS/100 ADDDBINR3ZROUNDH>60 PAYTP 1
ZFA21**** DHRS?DINR3
ZFA21***** HRS=0 ADDDBINR4Z
ZFA21****= HRS=1 ADDDBINR4Z
ZFA3***** ZHRS=BCURYRHRS/4 ADDDBINR5ZROUNDH>60 PAYTP 1
ZFA31**** DHRS?DINR5
ZFA31***** HRS=0 ADDDBINR6Z
ZFA31****= HRS=1 ADDDBINR6Z -
Unable to generate the file report pdf on 29 february 2012 or during any leap year day...
hii this is manab......
sir/mam i have face the following error in 29 february 2012 for my overall company report .But i can easily get the
report of another department on 29feb 2012....but when i try generate the overall report of my comapany then i find the errors
REP-1401: 'cf_mc_prod_lyrformula': Fatal PL/SQL error occurred.
ORA-01839: date not valid for month specified
The following is the logfile.........
...........................................................................................log file................................................................................................................
HPCL Custom Application: Version : UNKNOWN
Copyright (c) 1979, 1999, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
HPCCMDS module: HPC Modified CMD Report
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Current system time is 04-SEP-2013 11:37:20
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------------
| Starting concurrent program execution...
+-----------------------------
Arguments
P_MILL='NPM'
P_TRANSACTION_DATE='2012/02/29 00:00:00'
Current NLS_LANG and NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS Environment Variables are :
American_America.US7ASCII
REP-1401: 'cf_mc_prod_lyrformula': Fatal PL/SQL error occurred.
ORA-01839: date not valid for month specified
Report Builder: Release 6.0.8.24.0 - Production on Wed Sep 4 11:37:20 2013
(c) Copyright 1999 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Enter Username:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Start of log messages from FND_FILE
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
End of log messages from FND_FILE
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Program exited with status 1
Concurrent Manager encountered an error while running Oracle*Report for your concurrent request 11426643.
Review your concurrent request log and/or report output file for more detailed information.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Executing request completion options...
Finished executing request completion options.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Concurrent request completed
Current system time is 04-SEP-2013 11:59:23
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
kindly give me solution .....i have e-business suite 11i
internet explorer latest version...Hi,
Please confirm whether this is a custom or standard report.
If this is a custom report, then probably the respective issue has not been handled by exception handling.
Also please refer note:
How to check if version 11.5.10.2 is certified to Handle Leap Years (Doc ID 549937.1)
Thanks &
Best Regards, -
Now that I am on Mavericks and no longer able to sync between my iPhone/iPad and Outlook 2011 on my MacBook Pro, I'm finally taking the leap (which I should have done long ago) and abandoning Outlook 2011 all together (doesn't help that Outlook now prompts me to rebuild by Identity multiple times per day). I am hoping to export from Outlook to iCal, Address Book, etc, but I would love it if someone could check my steps.
Delete iCal and Apple Address Book content -- Because I have old data in iCal and Address Book (that was synched before I upgraded to Mavericks), I planned to delete this data as follows:
Manually deleting my multiple calendars in the iCal app
Go to Go>Home>Library>Calendars and drag "Calendar Cache" to trash
Go to Go>Home>Library>Caches and drag "com.apple.iCal" and "com.apple.AddressBook" to the trash
Go to Go>Home>Library>Application Support and drag "Address Book" to the trash
Export Outlook 2011 Calendars to iCalIs there a file format that I can use to export from Outlook 2011 and then import into iCal? I will use this file format to individually export each of my calendars from Outlook 2011 and import them into iCal.
Export Outlook 2011 Contact List to Apple Address BookIs there a file format that I can use to export from Outlook 2011 and then import into Apple Address Book?
Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Hi acs4055,
As per your query I found a relevant solution for resolving this, actually I haven’t tried the steps you wrote here in your query. But I found a solid key answer for exporting from Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) Outlook 2011 to iCal for Apple mail. This is possible through Drag and Drop method via this you can undoubtedly migrate Outlook 2011 Calendar to ical format.
Hope it will assist you and you will be able to attain a desired solution. -
Recommendations for interface problems in ical and mail?
Generally my impressions of 10.7 are positive... the full screen views are great and navigating among screens is super easy. It makes the screen on my 11" MacBook Air feel much larger.
But there are two major steps backwards in the two apps I use most: mail.app and iCal.
mail.app 5.0 - In mail.app 4.0 when a thread was selected, the /closed/ thread items would appear in the message browser. In mail.app 5.0, it is only possible to "preview" the a thread if you click on the small number adjacent to the thread in the preview pane. This previews the content of the thread, but does not mark the messages as "unread".
However, if you miss that little number icon (and accidentally click on the thread itself) the messages open in the message pane and they are marked as "read" automatically. So, this means that if I delete a message above a thread that contains unread messages, that thread becomes selected immediately and the messages are marked as "read" (even though I did not read them).
This makes it almost impossible for me to prioritize my email, I miss important emails because they're marked as "read", and I'm constantly hitting command+shift+U as I gingerly navigate my inbox.
iCal 5.0 - in iCal 4.0 there was a left pane that allowed users to select calendars /and/ see a simple "month preview". These were two very useful features, which allowed me to turn on and off calendars with a single click and see how upcoming weeks/months looked. In ical 5.0 there is no simple month view option (nor can one see two or more months simultaneously except in the cluttered "year" view).
Am I missing some buried setting that will return the 4.0 features I'm missing? Are there any suggestions (other than switching to other software) that folks can recommend?I completely agree. The conversations view in Lion Mail is pretty confusing and the whole read vs unread thing doesn't really work well. And the Unread smart mailbox doesnt update in real time anymore. But the bigger issue is iCal, which in my opinion is a total disaster. I am really shocked and angry at how bad iCal and the Address Book are. These are crucial apps and Apple has just thrown us a steaming pile. After all these years these apps should be beautiful shining examples of great software.
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IPad, iCal and iTunes sync problem
Early last year, I posted (https://discussions.apple.com/message/18503738#18503738) that syncing between my iPad 3 and my Snow Leopard iMac behaved oddly. AppleCare Support dweebs had failed to resolve the issue and no one on here managed to come up with any suggested fix.
However, for no apparent reason, the problem stopped and I stopped monitoring this august and highly esteemed forum and all went well ...
... until recently.
I sync via a USB cable and I do not use iCloud (as I'm on Snow Leopard) save for Find My iPad, all other iCloud options are switched off. All other app syncing appears to work correctly, it is only iCal and Calendars that don't.
Just why things have started to go wrong now, probably in the last three or four weeks, I do not know but now the following syncing errors occur ...
1) On the iPad: new appointments or changes to appointments made on the iPad are not synced to the iMac;
2) On the iMac, changes to appointments already on the iMac are shown on the iPad as both the new and old timings/details, not as replacements;
3) On the iMac, new appointments are made in the default (or last) calendar used. These are then edited as required, with the details put in and, if necessary, calendars changed. On the iPad, however, these will show as both "New event" in the default calendar and as the edited correct appointment, not just as the finalised entry;
4) Appointments deleted from the iMac are not deleted from the iPad.
In other words, changes on the iPad are not synced across to the iMac and changes on the iMac are synced twice, once as the unedited appointment and once as the edited appointment - if an appointment is deleted it remains on the iPad.
When the original problem arose (similar but not identical) the Apple dweebs suggested deleting my iCloud account (not synced, used only for Find My iPad) but doing that this time does not remove the bug.
I'm running a 27" quad-core i7 iMac under MacOSX.6.8 (Build 10K549), iCal v4.0.4 (1395.7) and I sync via USB and iTunes v11.0.2 (26). The iPad is a 64GB 4G/wifi iPad 3, currently running under under iOS6.1.3. To the best of my knowledge, all available updates have been applied to both devices.
I have deleted all calendars off the iPad by deselecting Calendars in iTunes' iPad tab, turned it off. Swicthed off the iMac, Safe Booted and run OnyX full suite, I have then Single User booted, run fsck -fy three times then run applejack AUTO restart, then rebooted the iMac, rebooted the iPad, sync'd without Calendars then resynced with the Calendars selected again.
I had hoped that this would remove any cache files, temporary files, stuck RAM or whatever else could conceivably be causing this bizarre behaviour - to no bl**dy avail! It is behaving exactly and frustratingly as before!
What on earth is going on? if I can't use my iPad as my main calendar and add new appointments when out and about and have them synced properly and reliably to my iMac then the whole thing is a waste of time andI shall have to revert to a paper diary again!
HELP!!!!! Please, before I go mad with frustration!I'm not sure whether getting no replies to this (or the earlier) query is something of which to be proud - or terrified!
Am I the only person in the world with this bizarre insoluble problem? if so, why me? Am I a Chosen One or, more likely, someone to be punished for a lifetime of misdeeds!
But there is progress. I have no idea what happened at a technical level or why, but the matter has now resolved itself and things are syncing normally. Until the next time!
Perhaps there is a clue somewhere in the following ...
I run my iMac 24/7 and thus I rarely close iCal on the iMac and when i do it is usually by accident. The same applies to Calendars on the iPad, although I do reboot from time to time.
Anyway, I installed some software on the iMac which required a reboot and, as susual, iCal opened via Preferences > Accounts > Startup items - only this time I was presented with a perfectly blank calendar. A message appeared, from within iCal (oh, how I wish i had noticed what it actually said) saying something along the lines of "importing calendars". This took a little while and it wasn't instant - maybe it does this every time it reatrts but too fast for me to notice.
After this "import", if indeed that's what it was, the syncing was corrected!
Coincidence? Cause and effect? Magic? Too many magic mushrooms for breakfast?
If that is what resolved the issue, then how can I cause an import deliberately for when the syncing goes astray again and just what does an "import" do that a normal launch doesn't and which might have resolved the glitch?
I have had this "import" message before, but very very rarely, so it may well have resolved the syncing issue last time and I just didn't make the possible connection.
Does that help anyone come to my rexcue with an explanation and, possibly, a strategy for preventing or deliberatly correcting syncing issues in the future? -
ICal and mobile me have same events but on different dates and times
I am using iCal and have a mobileme account.
When I publish the calendars their publish sites are fine.
But when I go to my mobileme calendar, the events are there, but at different times and a day early.
I have tried changing my (GMT time) but it stays as Pacific Time (US & Canada)
The 'all day' events are correct, but the events throughout the day are incorrect.
All the events on my iphone match the calendar on my home phone so I am really confused.
Any idea what I can do to fix this?Thx Bernard,
You are very helpful
When you went through the steps, were any of the settings different to those that I suggested?
......Yes, Time zone was uncheck in iCal and MM
I don't think you mentioned importing previously. Where are the events originally created?
.....I have a large spreadsheet of college athletic games that we keep in Excel and I import to iCal, they are ALWAYS one hour off after imported to iCal. Long before iPhone and MM too!
I don't see that MobileMe is especially different to dotmac - except that you now have explicit control over the time zone of the calendar (whereas it used to be set to the one from which you originally published).
...Honestly the TZ Support is a HUGE pain and causes Much more trouble for all than anything it is suppose to help with..., been that way ever since iCal came out...
One hour time differences often crop-up on a phone and are usually to do with daylight savings issues, but you don't mention a phone in your set-up so I am assuming this is not the case.
...again this one hour problem, has been an issue for me long before the iPhone and MM...
I have to say that I don't have issues with my calendars and I have these synced across different systems and devices, so for me it really is a non-issue. (I should also say that I travel frequently and don't have problems with events in multiple time zones either.)
...glad it works for you, but it appears this is an issue for many. I used Now Up-To-Date for 10+ years and NEVER had trouble with import/export/sync...
One thing I neglected to ask you is whether you do need to have time zone support - i.e. do you travel with any of the macs to which you sync or do you get invitations that originate in different time zones?
...I have no need for TZ Support even if I were and astronaut
It would also be enormously helpful if you would provide data on what version of OS X and iCal you are using.
....I am on 10.5.5 and iCal 3.0.5
Thx Much -
Okay, this whole iCloud thing is a bit above my head right now. I seem to be making it work, but am a bit confused, and want to make sure I am doing things correctly. Where there is an actual question, I will place in the quote box... but, there may be implied questions elsewhere, or if you find I have made a bad assumption, please make me aware!
First of all, I have an iPhone 4 (IOS 5) and a MacBook. My husband has an iPhone 4 (IOS 4-he resists change and has not updated his IOS). I neglected to tell you what system my MacBook is on because I want to show you the order in which I did everything.
So, for sake of argument, let's say up through October, I entered events into my iPhone 4 (IOS 4) and/or on my MacBook (Snow Leopard), and then synced through iTunes (hard wire connection to MacBook), sharing calendars between my husband's iPhone and I by syncing back and forth.
Then, I alone (my husband has not updated his iPhone) updated to IOS 5 on my iPhone. It seemed to automatically export my calendars (All on my Mac) as they were to iCloud calendars. So, I abandoned adding events to the "All on My Mac" calendars and only entered into my iCloud calendars. However, it wasn't until recently I noticed I had to create a CALDAV link to iCloud to see those new/edited events on my Mac under Snow Leopard. My husband, in the meantime has been using his calendars that aren't iCloud affiliated since he is still on IOS 4
I am wondering what will happen with those "On my Mac" calendars he has on his iPhone if I already had those calendars on my iPhone when I switched to iCloud?- we use the same apple ID.
It has been a while since I synced his iPhone.
So, then, I had a duplicate sets of calendars in my iCal (iCloud and the Mac-driven calendars).
But, then a week ago, I downloaded Lion onto my MacBook. It seems to still be connected via that CALDAV link I did. Not sure if that is still the most efficient way-this was a workaround for Snow Leopard,
but how is Lion supposed to be set up for iCloud calendars?
(I also am unsure all the time why my computer is asking to use a password using my email account in my keychain- wording is wrong, but I am sure others have gotten this same request. I have denied, I have accepted, but never said always allow because I am not sure what it is trying to do.)
So, my question,
can I delete my old "On my Mac" calendars since I have abandoned them? What will happen when I connect my husband's iPhone if those calendars are missing? Could I just sync the new iCloud calendars as described above instead onto his iPhone? And, will it from then on out allow him to use iCloud, or does he need to be on IOS 5?
BTW, I don't know if it matters, but I have never had a .me account. I read somewhere you can get a .me email account by having Lion. I think I read that I need to set that up in iCloud on my MacBook, but have not done that. My current apple id is an independant email account that I've had for years. Not sure what will happen if I ever have to get rid of that email address.
I am sure I can change my contact email address in my apple profile, but would that change my apple id to the new email address I give (whether it be a .me email or a different, let's say, gmail account)?
My iPhone seems to be syncing okay. But, would like to clean up my iCal and I want to make sure I do things properly when it comes to syncing with my husband's iPhone if he stays at IOS4 (and how I sync him up- can it be automatic or do I have to continue the hard wire approach?) and what I should do differently in setting up his iPhone if he switches to IOS5 (and what steps I should do as I update him to IOS5 so calendars aren't lost or duplicated- as he has added entries to his calendar for example -"Husband's calendar"- and I have an iCloud calendar named that, but he has added more to the "on my mac" version on his iPhone and I have added some to the iCloud version.)u mean mobileme yes? first thing to do is to go to mobileme ON THE WEB and see if the events are there. then check to make sure you are using the right calendar in iCal and mobileme is set to sync ur calendar in the first place.
In iCal:
In system preferences:
then if that all looks good and still no dice, there is a procedure in the mobileme forum for resyncing all your mobileme stuff.
Message was edited by: coocooforcocoapuffs: go to mobileme ON THE WEB -
ICal and Addressbook connecting to eGroupware - various bugs?
Hi all,
given CalDAV and CardDAV as standardized protocols, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to connect to private calendar and addressbook servers, you'd think... For some year's I'm running a eGroupware server, and while this product is far from being bug free, I believe it's basically massive bugs in Apple's Ca*DAV protocols that keep the synchronization from working. Let's start with iCal:
Originally, eGroupware's CalDAV implementation returned fully qualified URIs (like https://www.example.com/egroupware/calendar/) for all kinds of properties, e.g. calendar-home-set. As a result, iCal sent requests with the path //www.example.com/egroupware/calendar - i.e. instead of properly parsing the URI, it just stripped off the protocoll indicator and tried to treat the remaining string as a path.
As the CalDAV standard doesn't make any hint if URIs should be supplied as fully qualified or relative URIs, returning full URIs seems to be the safer bet, and iCal's reaction on this is IMHO as clearly a bug as it can be. Nevertheless, I patched eGroupware to supply relative URIs, and hey ho, iCal integrates fine with eGroupware now. By the way, eGroupware has some hard coded behaviour to supply only the events of one month back by default, but you can patch that behaviour as well, of course.
Now to Addressbook, and that's where I'm beyond my wits First of all, it is not possible to configure a CardDAV server in Addressbook itself, as the GUI is massively broken (just try to setup a CardDAV server https://www.example.com/egroupware/addressbook/ and you'll end up with a configured URL https://www.exmaple.com:443/egroupware/addressbook/:443<null> or something even more broken. You need to edit the file "Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/78E03291-22C9-4E27-9852-8480AD6A0F03/Configuration. plist" manually.
Now, still Addressbook sends a PROPFIND requst for current-user-privilege-set to /directory/ to the server. Don't know what kind of result the programmers expected from this, but on my CalDAV server nothing at all resides under that path, also it's not mentioned in the CalDAV as a general concept. After it got a 405 Method Not Allowed to this request, Addressbook continues sending more sensible requests, so it might not be an actual problem - I'm not sure.
Next is a PROPFIND query for addressbook-home-set to /egroupware/groupdav.php/addressbook/ wich is a perfectly expected behaviour from the standard. But first, the server replies with 401 Unauthorized. Addressbook then repeats the request, this time including the correct HTTP BASIC authentication information. Now, the server tries its best to handle this request according to standards. I quote the full response here, perhaps some pro spots a mistake in the response I'm to dumb to see:
HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:51:58 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Debian)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.10-2.2
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
X-Dav-Powered-By: eGroupWare CalDAV/CardDAV/GroupDAV server
X-WebDAV-Status: 207 Multi-Status
Content-Length: 486
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
<D:response xmlns:ns0="urn:uuid:c2f41010-65b3-11d1-a29f-00aa00c14882/" xmlns:ns1="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:carddav">
<D:href>/egroupware/groupdav.php/addressbook/</D:href>
<D:propstat>
<D:prop>
<ns1:addressbook-home-set><D:href>/egroupware/groupdav.php/addressbook/</D:href ></ns1:addressbook-home-set>
</D:prop>
<D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
</D:propstat>
</D:response>
</D:multistatus>
I read the CardDAV RFC over and over again, but this seems to be as correct a response as you could wish. Note: out of the box eGroupware doesn't generate the D:href sub-element to ns1:addressbook-home-set but directly puts the URI as content of that element. This is not correct according to the CardDAV standard, but iCal is ignoring exactly the same mistake of the CalDAV implementation of eGroupware. It doesn't make a difference for Addressbook either - both variants lead to the error message 'Von CardDAV-Server Fehler (207) für den Benutzer "xxx" erhalten.' This is a strange message to show, as 207 is not an error code. Of course I patched eGroupware to return 200 OK as HTTP status (contradicting the standard), and hey ho, in Konsole you'll see an error message stating "Expected multi-status response but got status code: 200".
So - Addressbook actually expects and checks for 207 Multi-Status, i.e. the message on the GUI is giving us no indication on the actual problem. Some easy checks proved that Addressbook wouldn't react any different if the server replies with plain nonsense (e.g. syntax errors in the XML file). So, obviously, Addressbook can't cope with an aspect of the response it gets, fails to generate any log or message box about the problem, and sets a misleading error indication on the GUI.
And now? Does anybody have a good hint what could Addressbook make work here? When can fixes to iCal and Addressbook realistically be expected, if at all?Hello Pelzi,
Same problem here with iCal an eGroupware. Since I opgraded to SnowLeopard, my Calander isn't syncing anymore.
*iCal sends this:*
PROPFIND //192.168.3.199/egroupware/groupdav.php/calendar/ HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.3.199
User-Agent: DAVKit/4.0 (729); CalendarStore/4.0 (965); iCal/4.0 (1362); Mac OS X/10.6 (10A432)
Authorization: Basic ******
Depth: 1
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 143
Connection: keep-alive
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<x0:propfind xmlns:x0="DAV:">
<x0:prop>
<x0:getetag/>
<x0:resourcetype/>
</x0:prop>
</x0:propfind>
*And Groupdav replies:*
HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:41:34 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Linux/SUSE)
Vary: accept-language,accept-charset
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Language: en
1e
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="
af
ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Method not allowed!</title>
<link rev="made" href="mailto:"[email protected]" />
<style type="text/css"><!--/--><![CDATA[/*><!--/
body { color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; }
a:link { color: #0000CC; }
p, address {margin-left: 3em;}
span {font-size: smaller;}
/]]>/--></style>
</head>
<body>
Method not allowed!
The
PROPFIND
method is not allowed for the requested URL.
If you think this is a server error, please contact
the webmaster.
If anyone has a solution?
Message was edited by: HansH8
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