Bug: Non valid DTSTART and DTEND in caldav VEVENT

chrisk

Hello,

I don’t know if it is ok to post a bugreport in this subforum. If not please move it to the right place.

I’m using the community version of Kopano 8.5.4 (Debian Testing Packages).
When I create a new calendar event (it doesn’t matter if I create it with webapp, thunderbird, evolution or with an iphone) and download it by using a http GET request (kopano-ical), the properties “DTSTART” and “DTEND” are not valid.

Example:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Kopano//8.5.4//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/Berlin
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:19700101T030000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10;WKST=SU
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:19700101T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3;WKST=SU
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
CREATED:20180314T091312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T091312Z
DTSTAMP:20180314T091312Z
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180315T080000Z
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180315T090000Z
SUMMARY:Thunderbird 8 Uhr
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:07246d77-b3c4-4a6c-94e4-4e306083b920
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNER-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20180314T091654Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ATTENDEE-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20180314T091654Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:-1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Here DTSTART contains a timezone and a UTC-Time. Regarding to https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-3-5-date-time.html this is not valid. For my example only the following forms are valid:

DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180315T080000

or

DTSTART:20180315T090000Z

Because of this bug, some clients (like thunderbird and outlook) does not handle these events in a correct way. For example thunderbird shows this event one hour late. The same for outlook.

Does anyone know if this is a known bug and there is a bugfix or workaround?

Thank you very much
Christian

fbartels

Hi @chrisk ,

yes of course is this forum a good place to put your request. I have now only moved your thread from the general section to the core server part. Just for me to better understand, do you use a client that trips over this or this a matter of “not according to rfc”?

chrisk

@fbartels Thanks for your help

This is not only a matter of “not according to rfc”. We are using thunderbird and outlook as our mailclients and after upgrading to 8.5.4 (from 8.3.something) we can’t use the calendar anymore because all of our events are shown with a wrong time.
So I really need a bugfix or workaround for this.

Christian

fbartels

Hi @chrisk ,

I did a quick test with our packages (and also a slightly newer version) and here it shows up correctly:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Kopano//8.6.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
CREATED:20180312T140856
LAST-MODIFIED:20180312T141315
DTSTAMP:20180312T141315
DTSTART:20180313T130000Z
DTEND:20180313T140000Z
SUMMARY:test 2
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:
 040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000080FC3902ACBBD301000000000000000001
 0000004424B23B0C54473F9FECB6597527D6DF
X-MOZ-SNOOZE-TIME:20180313T124500Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNER-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20180314T154917Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ATTENDEE-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20180314T154917Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:-1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
CREATED:20180312T140525
LAST-MODIFIED:20180312T143729
DTSTAMP:20180312T143729
DTSTART:20180312T150000Z
DTEND:20180312T160000Z
SUMMARY:Testtermin
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:PRIVATE
UID:
 040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000080FC3902ACBBD301000000000000000001
 000000CA12DB371D8148CD8F58E66140C853B8
X-MOZ-SNOOZE-TIME:20180312T110000Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNER-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20180314T154917Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ATTENDEE-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20180314T154917Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:-1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION:-PT4H
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

So it seems this is something either with the dependencies used in the Debian packaging or maybe another side effect. Maybe you want to give our packages a try if you need an immediate fix.

chrisk

After subscription, removing all of the debian testing packages and reinstalling the latest Kopano 8.5.5, it seems to work now.

Thanks for your help.

fbartels

Hi @chrisk ,

thanks for the update.