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Hi, there! I'm using the current version of GPE-Calendar and subscribing to (not synchronizing with) my Google Calendar, basically for a nice offline-viewable version of my calendar. However, as of two or three days ago, I receive the following error: "Error updating calendar Jon Gcal: invalid format for type 'date/time' in attribute CREATED." Any ideas on how to fix this? I suspect the problem's at Google's end, but has anyone else experienced it?
Cheers,
Jon

I use GPE Calendar daily and run Erminig to sync with Google. I've never had any problems.

Thanks for your reply! I used to use Erminig (the current version, I believe) but it had trouble with shifting time zones on Google (events showed up an hour off, occasionally) and with odd repeating rules that worked on Google. I really liked syncing with Erminig but occasionally lost data due to the above issues. So, since then, I use GPE as an offline viewer for my calendar, rather than a place to enter new events, and just subscribe to my GCal. However, that recently stopped working too, due to the error I mentioned in the previous post. Anyone else experience that error?

So, some time ago, I posted this, on an error I encountered in a subscribed calendar, from Google Calendar, in GPE Calendar:

This error made it impossible for me to use GPE to view my calendar (without using Erminig, which, because I'd lost data in the past, I was a little reluctant to do).

I've figured out how to fix this -- so if it happens to you, try this. I downloaded the .ics for my calendar from Google Calendar. I ran this command on it: "grep CREATED basic.ics >> joncreated.txt". I took the resulting list of "CREATED" lines, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically.

Lo and behold, the top of the spreadsheet showed this oddity: CREATED:00001231T000000Z
it found four instances. Obviously all of the zeroes and 1234 don't represent a valid date, the way the other CREATED entries did.

So, I opened my ics file (basic.ics) in a text editor and searched for every instance of CREATED:00001231T000000Z. I looked for the event name, and then deleted and remade that event in Google Calendar.

Now it works perfectly as a subscribed calendar in GPE Calendar!

Best,
Jon

Thanks for that hint, Jon.

I have also see Google come up with times that have "60" in the seconds field (and not when there is a leap second being applied). These are invalid and will also cause that error.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to submit bug reports to Google.

Graham

@ jonathandueck

Oh wow dude I love you! Seriously you solved such a big issue for me. I've given up on Erminig myself mainly for the reason that it keeps crashing on me while trying to sync. This solves a big issue for me! Thanks.

Quick question that I would like to throw out here, What would happen if I set a calendar as subscribe but then made changes and changed it to publish when I want to "sync" it.

Is there anyway to set transparency, font size, etc for the applet?
I'd also like to remove the date-time from it.

Hello, I have this problem still. I'm running version 2.8 svn20081212-3

For a while I thought it was advanced backlight, or advanced battery... At one point I even thought it was Xchat. It was GPE summary all along causing the hildon desktop crash.

I've turned off the summary applet, a few days ago, and ever since, no crashes. I've re-installed the other apps, and no crashes.

Too bad, because I think the summary applet makes the calendar program great! Anyone know if this is being fixed? if it has been reported? or where to report it?

thanks

I have noticed that I can stop crashes if the .gpe/calendar is deleted and restart the application. Then I just import my latest ics file and all are fine again for a few months.

hope it helps.