nextcloud / nextcloud/calendar
Nextcloud Appointments: Timezone disparity between web UI and Thunderbird/Merkuro
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Description
Steps to reproduce
- Book an appointment in a Timezone different than your home timezone
- Check the Calendar webapp. The event should be displayed in your home timezone.
- On some CalDav clients (Thunderbird/Merkuro), the timezone is displayed incorrectly
Expected behavior
All CalDav clients should show you the event in your home timezone instead of UTC.
Actual behaviour
Some CalDav clients show the event in UTC timezone.
Nextcloud Calendar Web UI: The event was scheduled in Asia/Kolkata, and shows up correctly in my Timezone (Europe/Berlin)
Thunderbird: The event shows up in UTC time
Merkuro Calendar: Same behaviour
However, the event is shown correctly on my home timezone on the iOS calendar.
Calendar app version
4.6.4
CalDAV-clients used
Thunderbitd, Merkuro, iOS
Browser
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Client operating system
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Server operating system
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Web server
None
Database engine version
None
PHP engine version
None
Nextcloud version
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Updated from an older installed version or fresh install
None
List of activated apps
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Nextcloud configuration
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Web server error log
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the appointment flow using a timezone different from the home timezone, then compare the event in the Calendar web UI with its presentation in Thunderbird, Merkuro, and iOS. Inspect the CalDAV event data and timezone handling first; done means affected CalDAV clients display the appointment in the user's home timezone rather than UTC.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100