Hello Dan,

With the end of the year coming, year-bug are known to be detected. In version 3.8 I found one... When selecting an event for the new year (2005 that is), Newvalendar jumps to that date in the current year (not showing the requested event next year). I took the liberty to change NewcalIndex.pl from

### end group stuff for SSI
							if ($itemcount == 0) {
								$data2 = $data2 . qq~<LI>$daydata[1]:&nbsp;<A year=$thisyear&acttype=viewdata">$daydata[0]</A>~;
								$itemcount++;
							} else {
								$data2 = $data2 . qq~,&nbsp;<A year=$thisyear&acttype=viewdata">$daydata[0]</A>~;
								$itemcount++;
							}
 

into

### end group stuff for SSI

if ($thismonth < $today[4]) { $thisevyear=$thisyear+1; } else { $thisevyear=$thisyear; }

							if ($itemcount == 0) {
								$data2 = $data2 . qq~<LI>$daydata[1]:&nbsp;<A year=$thisevyear&acttype=viewdata">$daydata[0]</A>~;
								$itemcount++;
							} else {
								$data2 = $data2 . qq~,&nbsp;<A year=$thisevyear&acttype=viewdata">$daydata[0]</A>~;
								$itemcount++;
							}
 

With this code-change the NewCalendar keeps track of the current year by comparing the month (11 - december) with the event. If the month of the event is lower than the current month, the event must take place in the coming year.

Kind regards,
Alex

I cant get this to work in my 1.3.2 forum 

Strange things happening here.

I played with your calendar quite a bit and there seems to be a problem with perl's date calculations on your server.  Do you have any odd settings for the default time zones or are you aware if your webhost transferred your domain from server to server?  What is happening is that the date being returned by the perl timegm function on your forum is off by a day.

I entered an event on Feb 24th:

Quote:


If you click the link above you will see the event, but note the date which is given as the 23rd.  Somehow the date is getting knocked back a day.  You'll note that all the calendar function work except anytime that the days of the month are being listed out.  This is because when the dates are knocked back a day, the first day of the month is now returning a time/date index prior to the beginning of the month and the script knows to stop counting days when it reaches a date outside the current month so it stops with the very first date (instead of the first date past the end of the month as normal).

If you check this link you will see what I mean.
Quote:


Month 0 is January
Day 1 is the 1st of the month so this link should go to Jan 01, 2005.  But since your perl is returning dates one day early the link goes to Dec 31, 2004.

Your best bet is to see if you can fix your server or perl install.  I have no idea why this error occurs.

If you can't find a way to fix that then try this:
Everywhere you find this line:

		my($thisdaysecs) = timegm(0,0,0,1,$thismonth,$thisyear); 

change it to:

		my($thisdaysecs) = timegm(0,0,0,2,$thismonth,$thisyear); 

This will bump up the date by one day.  You will need to modify the NewcalMonth.pl, NewcalYear.pl, NewcalIndex.pl, and NewcalPost.pl files.  I think this should fix it but I'm concerned events might now show up but be bumped to the wrong date.  Let me know and we'll keep hammering at it.

Dan

The timegm function is not the same as the gmtime function, in fact it is the inverse of the gmtime function.  gmtime takes a time index and returns a human readable date and time array.  The timegm function takes a human readable time date array and returns a time index (seconds since Jan 01, 1970 or seconds since Jan 01, 1900 depending on operating system and perl version).

The time gm function is part of the Time::Local perl module.  This is a standard perl module.

Dan

Ok everyone, I moved all the sites to a new server and everything is working fine. Just as Dan said, there was something wrong with the perl install on the old server.

Now I just have to wait until a YaBB2 version comes out...

How can I set the mini-calender that appears on the front page to display the day/letter of the week at the top of the calendar.  Ie.  S | M | T | W | T | F | S

Hey,

Newcalendar has been working great so far. Question about reoccuring "repeat for" dates though.

In the drop down it has "3rd Tuesday"...so I could set a calendar item to display the 3rd Tuesday of every month.

Is there a way to add things like this? For example, I'd like to add "1st Thursday" of every month and have an event repeat the 1st Thursday of every month.

Thanks!