[Q] EXRULE support in Android Calendar? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

A question came up elsewhere about having a recurring meeting every first Monday of the month except not on Jan 1st or July 4th. In ICS format it would be like this:
Code:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130603
RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1MO
EXRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYMONTHDAY=1;BYMONTH=1
EXRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYMONTHDAY=4;BYMONTH=7
DESCRIPTION:
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Event first Monday of every month, except Jan 1st or Jul 4th.
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
Now, importing this to Google Calendar works and it seems to skip correctly on July 4th 2016 and January 1st 2018. Only problem is, it doesn't show up in my Galaxy Nexus at all. Somewhat differently if I import this to Outlook and sync via Google's email app, I get the meeting in Outlook and phone but it doesn't skip.
So is the unfortunate conclusion then that EXRULE is currently not supported in the Android Calendar app? Any suggestions for apps that can handle this?

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[Q] calandar problem...please help

When I change the time zone, either manually or automatically, the times of my appointments in the calendar app all change as well.
For instance, if I travel from central time zone to eastern time zone, all of the appointments will shift to an hour later.
I travel a lot, and this has become quite problematic. Can anyone help?
anyone?
It's driving me 'round the bend.
I do not understand why this is a problem....
All appointments are linked to UTC/GMT.
Therefore if you change timezone, your appointments follow suit.
The HD2 has the ability to work with two timezones
(windows key, settings, more, clock)
Tab time, if you set "visiting" your appointments will move in time. (because of lock to GMT)
If you on the other hand changeyour home time it will also automatically change the times. (because of lock to GMT)
The only thing I can suggest is plan your appointments in GMT time, then all appointments will automatically move to the correct time in the timezone.
What I mean:
If you need an appointment at 13:15 EST (UTC-5), and you are in Amsterdam at the moment (UTC+1) (Note UTC=GMT) then the appointment should be planned in at 19:15 (conversion from EST to UTC adds 5, from UTC to Amsterdam +1)
This is actually also the time you should make a phonecall to someone in EST at 13:15. (To rech a person at 13:15 in EST, you will need to call them at 19:15 Amsterdam time..)
Now if you move to the EST region, adapt your clock, all appointments will shift in time, resulting in the planned appointment beeing scheduled at 13:15.
The other option (if you do not like this), is to look for a second clock, which looks at the earlier mentioned "Visiting" time, without activating visiting Time (leaving allways on home time, not adapting that one to your new timezone)
Clocks Like SPB Time, handy clock ar just two apps wher you can see multiple timezones at once. (Commercial apps, quite expensive)
But there are a lot of freeware alternatives too, but then you will have to look for yourself (and WM6.5) as loads of freeware clocks are for PPC2003, wm5, wm6 seldom for wm6.5
I hope this will help you.
Hi Wilco !
I am facing exactly this problem since now I use my HD2-Sense calendar as my calendar "on the go" (till now I used Google-mobile app to call up my calendar)
I am syncing now my Google-Calendar via Active-sync/Exchange and it is really annoying when I am in a different time zone that all my appointments shift in time and it would be a hell of work to register appointments in UTC and wouldn't make sense since when I look up appointments in my home place they are shifted to local time too.
On the other hand I need the local time on my home screen when in a different time zone.
Isn't there a handy way to overcome this ? Having the clock show the local time AND the calendar keeping the appointment dates to home time ?
Maybe a reg-tweak?
Does maybe anyone know where in the registry I find the coding for the calendar so that I can play around a bit .............
Just for info: got in contact with HTC support. They answered: it´s not possible to have local time AND calendar dates correct. It´s an either - or
I mean: how stupid is THAT ??????
Now finally I found a somehow easy solution to this problem since HTC is of absolutely no help and won´t solve in the next 30 years
Before You leave Your time-zone call up google calendar in any browser, go to "settings" and switch time zone to the time-zone of Your destination.
Then resync Your calendar.
Once You come back change time-zone again in google calendar.

[Q] Corporate ActiveSync Timestamp

We have Exchange 2003 at work, and I get my email on my Atrix through ActiveSync. When I reply or forward an email, it adds the following to the email:
-----Original message-----
From: Bob Smith
To: Susan Brown
Sent: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 15:15:36 GMT+00:00
Subject: Hi Mom!
The problem is the sent time stamp. It is not showing my timezone (I am PST), and it is showing 24 hour time. The time is setup correctly in my Atrix. My coworkers HTC Thunderbolt shows it correctly, like this:
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Can I change this?
Nobody out there experiencing this?
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I am having issues with my Android email app.
I have tried a couple third party but I am really loving the stock ICS email app. I just have one issue.
Like the ****ty iPhone when replying to an email it removes all of the email header information and just says, "Mike John <[email protected]> wrote:"
I would like the full headers to display as we need this for business emails.
This is one of my main arguements against the iPhone and I would like the android devices to hold this about them.
The email header I`m looking to have included is:
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 09:20 PM
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Hello Everyone.
Could you please help me? How can I teach S Planner repeat the event every 4 weeks?
For example, for tomorrow (Sunday, June 23) I need to put an event that would be repeated every 4 weeks.
In the settings there are two possibilities.
Monthly (every fourth Sunday)
Monthly (on day 23).
It is logical to assume that the first option is the one you want. But as it turned out, event marked on the fourth Sunday from the beginning of each month, not the beginning of the event ..
So, having to me the repeated event should take place on July 21. But S Planner marks the fourth Sunday of July - July 28.
I would be very grateful if you would advise how to solve this problem, or suggest a similar planner with the necessary functionality to me.
I have been looking for the same, but still not found how except to do it on Google calendar, was hoping they would have update this but it seems not.
If you hear from anything, drop a line.
Create the event in Google calender at every 4 weeks. Sync Google calender to your account. Then sync it to s calender. It shows up in s calender at every 4 weeks.

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According to Google, Contact API will be deprecated on June 15, 2021. Developers should use "People API" (published in 2016).
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