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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 07:38:19 -0800 (PST)
From: moodleadmin
Reply-To: Online.MC_PO3.LCC-Mail@lanecc.edu
Subject: Repeated chats not showing up in the calendar (and possible other time issues)
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Any of you guys using repeating chats, by any chance?

I was trying to test whether all the problems with chat times being off due to DST were fixed.  (They aren't.  But more on that later.)

When I created a test chat, I set it to repeat every week.  It doesn't show up on the calendar, except for the first time.  It's possible, I guess, that the calendar only shows the most recent upcoming instance.  But that's contrary to what it did in earlier versions.  Changing the lookahead doesn't change this behavior.

Vis-a-vis the DST issue: I tried setting up a repeating event.  When using server's time zone, it still did not correctly set the time after the DST switchover.

I went through the (wildly undocumented) machinations necessary to retrieve a new list of time zones.  Set the server's time to America/Los Angeles.  THEN, after I'd done that, I created a new repeating event.  This time, it worked: the time was correct for all instances.

So: I'm guessing that we may need to think about events that have already been created; they may need to have their times adjusted.  It's also possible we won' have to.  I still need to do some more research on this (forcing the time zone, for example, may do what we need to do).  I'll let you know what I find out.

But I would appreciate knowing if I'm simply doing somethign really dome that's causing my test repeated chats not to show up.   I freely admit that this is a possibility.  If you'd like to see what I'm doing, it's in the "Test quiz" course in the 'Courses to be deleted' category.

David

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David Walton
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Lane Community College
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