Calendar: Multiday events always starts at current day

[buxxi]

In my calendar I have an event that spans from this tuesday to sunday, now on thursday it displays it as (1/4) instead of (3/6).
It also broadcasts to another module with the startDate being midnight for the current day. So I would guess some display logic is modifying the original data?

My config:

		{
			module: "calendar",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				displaySymbol: false,
				maximumEntries: 100,
				hideOngoing: false,
				broadcastPastEvents: true,
				sliceMultiDayEvents: true,
				calendars: [
					{
						color: "#55acee",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/...REDACTED"
					}
				]
			}
		},

It's in a private calendar but here's the relevant event:

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211018
DTSTAMP:20211014T154936Z
UID:REDACTED@google.com
CREATED:20211001T101108Z
DESCRIPTION:
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T101109Z
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:International 10
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:This is an event reminder
TRIGGER:-P0DT3H0M0S
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT

[jupadin]

This is the intended behavior.
@sdetweil commented on this in #2629 (comment).
For a multi day event, the current day instead of the start of the event is used (and we then don't know when the event has started - could be yesterday or the day before yesterday - but we use the current day as the beginning of the event).
Hope the link and the short answer helps...

[sdetweil]

@jupadin correct.. we don't care about the past. u can get MM to send past events in notifications, but the calendar module doesn't use anything prior to today

for recurring the modules passes the calendar rrule into rrule and it returns the list of UPCOMING events.
the module doesn't examine the start date as compared to this results list, and we have no way of knowing how many total events MIGHT have occurred, to get that 3/4 type count

[buxxi]

Can't say I agree at all...

• If it can broadcast past events it shouldn't modify the original data just because the current module shouldn't show them.
• If it always displays (1/X) for multidays events it should probably be displayed in another form that indicates how many days left instead of trying to lie about the range.

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