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Ghost in the machine? We broke google calendar

30 May 2014

Greetings shortwave fans.

Seems we have broken google calendar, so be careful using the schedule, you may have to double check it. If you see stuff missing please drop into the IRC and let us know.

Events are appearing and dissapearing at random it seems and the calendar can be a whole day out.

At the time of writing this post it's the 30th of May but the site is showing the calendar for the 29th of May. Very odd and I cannot figure out why this is the case.

The second issue is with events dissapearing. The public version of the calendar seems to lose several hour blocks of events, but they show fine in the "editable" version we use to keep it up to date. The events are set correctly, we are not being n00bs, but its rather disconcerting. Despite being set to public display, the only way to restore them is to set them to "Default". Then they reappear. I did this for a block of stations from 0300-0800. Once I had applied the changes they all appeared correctly. Oddly the next block from 0900-1400 have vanished with only two V13 entries showing. I have tried to report this to google but email support is not available and the only choice is to call the American support number. Great.

If anyone has a suggestion for a workable alternative we would love to hear about it!

Until then we will struggle with what we have and hate google a little more :-)

73

Webweasel