ICS file altered after iCal-Import/-Export in ownCloud Calendar 0.8.2

Hi folks,
Maybe there are some of you out there, still using ownCloud 8.2.9 with the ownCloud Calendar 0.8.2. I would like to ask if you could reproduce the following behaviour. And at all users on a newer release I would like to ask you, if you could confirm the expected behaviour which is described at the end of this post.

Steps to reproduce

First, import the ics file with the following content:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID: tronde whatsoever
X-WR-CALNAME:OpenSSH2
BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20170311T102027
UID:214@achat.hotel.de
DTSTAMP:20170311T102027
DESCRIPTION: Testing
SUMMARY:OpenSSH2
LOCATION:Chemnitz / Reichenhainer Str. 90 / Raum V4
CLASS:PUBLIC
DTSTART:20170311T160000
DTEND:20170311T170000
GEO:50.813889;12.93
URL:https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2017/de/programm/beitrag/274
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Please notice that DTSTART and DTEND is given in floating time according to https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-3-5-date-time.html.

Second, export this event from ownCloud Calendar to ics file. A diff of the original and the exported file shows:

diff OpenSSH.ics OpenSSH_oc_export.ics 
3c3
< PRODID: tronde whatsoever
---
> PRODID:ownCloud Calendar 0.8.2
14c14
< DTEND:20170311T170000
---
> DTEND:20170311T170000Z
18c18
< END:VCALENDAR
---
> END:VCALENDAR
\ Kein Zeilenumbruch am Dateiende.

Now, DTEND is suddenly given in utc time.

Conclusion

I guess the change happens during the import, already. Because if the imported event is synced with tunderbird lightning the event shows the wrong end time in the lightning calendar.

Expected behaviour

The expected behaviour is, that DTSTART and DTEND are not modified during import or export. I would like to know if newer versions of the ownCloud Calendar show the expected behaviour.

Because I'm not a native speaker, bear with me, please. If there is anything hard to understand, please ask and I would try to improve my explanation.

Thanks,
Tronde

Hi,

just do a demo / test installation of 9.0.8 or 9.1.4 on your own to see if this is fixed and working as expected.

It seems you have more knowledge about that calendar stuff from your posting to verify that and i doubt that some one in here will do the work or has the background knowledge to help here (we're mostly users among each other in here :confused:).

There is an easy to install / download Virtual Appliance linked at https://owncloud.org/ which should be started within a virtualbox within a few seconds. I think that this is the best way if you want to make sure that newer ownCloud versions doesn't shown the issue you're currently seeing.

Currently I'm not able to get access to https://owncloud.org/install/. Maybe that's an issue with the hotel wifi.

Thanks for your hint with the appliance. I would try that when I'm back home again and no one has give it a try by then.

EDIT: Well, the url is working, now. But I still could not find the download link of the appliance. Cloud you provide a direct download link, please?

I have just tested this on ownCloud 9.1.4 (stable) with Calendar 1.4.1.
The timestamps are not altered with this configuration.

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Good evening,

I have found some guys who could confirm the issue in the same version and some who could confirm that this did not occur in a newer version.

Thanks for your help here.