Bug 149614

Summary: Recurring events on Hebrew calender
Product: [Applications] korganizer Reporter: Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: gangleri, jlayt, yehielb
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dotan Cohen 2007-09-06 22:20:56 UTC 
Version:           1.2.4 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

In Israel many people celebrate birthdays, holidays, and such as recurring on the Hebrew calender, not the Gregorian calender. Kontact has a Hebrew calender plugin. It is very necessary that we can create recurring events based on that calender. It would also be nice if events could recur on both the Hebrew and the Gregorian calendar.

Thank you.
Comment 1 Diego Iastrubni 2008-03-01 12:25:38 UTC 
Dotan,

what happens when you change the calendar system from Gregorian to Hebrew in kcontrol...?

BTW, this is valid also for KDE4. ;-)
Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2008-03-02 12:24:09 UTC 
Diego,
I dare not change the calender setting in Kcontrol as this is a work-critical machine. I do need my everyday dates in Gregorian, mind you, however, as this is the everyday calender that I live by. However, some events such as birthdays, weddings, and holidays are celebrated by the Hebrew calender, so recursion by that calender is important in addition to the Gregorian. Thanks.
Comment 3 Dj YB 2009-08-18 12:15:54 UTC 
Diego, if I may suggest, I think it would be most convenient if while creating the event or to do when choosing / entering the date you could choose the calendar system from a list of calendar systems enabled for you, then if there is a recursion it will show according to the system you have chosen.
I guess it is the same and more important in the contact details page where you put birthday and anniversaries.
Comment 4 John Layt 2009-12-09 23:01:15 UTC 
Just as an FYI, running Kontact on a desktop with a non-Gregorian Calendar System will display the Calendar and Contacts with the chosen Calendar System, and single events will work OK.  However while setting up a recurring event in the GUI will appear to use the chosen Calendar System, it will in fact repeat according to the Gregorian Calendar System.  OSX iCal does the same, Microsoft Exchange gets it right but won't export it to iCalendar.

Basically the problem is the iCalendar standard doesn't currently support any Calendar System other than Gregorian, but I have a cunning plan to work around this :-)
Comment 5 Dotan Cohen 2009-12-09 23:50:01 UTC 
The issue is that Israelis use the Gregorian calendar for daily life, but the Hebrew calendar for anniversaries. The system calender must remain Gregorian, only some holidays and birthdays (not even all of them) would be Hebrew.