nextcloud / nextcloud/calendar

Auto-translation of time as per the locale and the timezone of the recepient of the calendar invite

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Description

Steps to reproduce
  1. The sender, who is in the Europe/Vienna (Austria) timezone, creates a calendar event and sends an invitation to another user.

  2. The receiver, who is in the Asia/Kolkata (India) timezone, receives the invitation email.

  3. The invitation email shows the event time in the sender’s Vienna timezone, not in the receiver’s local Kolkata timezone.

  4. After the receiver accepts the invitation, the event that gets added to their calendar shows the correct converted local time.

Expected behavior

The invitation email should display the event time in the attendee’s local timezone, so they can understand the correct time without doing manual conversion.

Each attendee should receive an invitation formatted in their own timezone, not the organizer’s.

Actual behavior

When a sender in Austria/Vienna timezone sends an invitation in to a receiver in India/Kolkata timezone, the receiver receives the invitation with time in Austria/Vienna timezone.
The problem is that the receiver has to convert the time and check the time before accepting the invite.
Although, after accepting the invitation and the event being added in the calendar of the receiver, the time is correct.

Calendar app version

5.5.3

CalDAV-clients used

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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

31.0.11

Updated from an older installed version or fresh install

None

List of activated apps

Nextcloud configuration

Web server error log

Log file

Browser log

Additional info

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Research direction

Reproduce the Vienna-to-Kolkata invitation flow described in the issue and inspect how invitation emails format event times. Done means each attendee’s invitation email shows the event in that attendee’s local timezone while the accepted calendar event remains correctly converted.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend, internationalization
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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