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Time related bug fixes

Posted on 24. Dec 2008 · Comments [32]
We have fixed a series of time related bugs (especially related to day light savings).

Write back if you experience any problems surrounding these fixes.

Labels: Labels: Bug fixes
32 comments so far

I don't know if you know this, but the Launchy plugin no longer appears to work. Any ideas?

I tried to put in an appointment for June 2, 2009 at 8:30 am. When I input that, it automatically changes to 7:30 am .... which is incorrect.

My ruby script which uses the Todoist API seems to have stopped working. Any ideas? It's giving the same error as the Launchy plugin does '500 Internal Server Error'.

Same Problem as Dylan. 9:00 changes to 8:00

I have the same issue as Neil and Robin - adding new items using the addItem call gives '500 Internal Server Error'. Everything else seems to work fine.

I've noticed that if you type an action point that has an ampersand in it (&) the line doesn't display after the ampersand.

Launchy plugin has stopped working for me and some coworkers....

It seems that the Daylight Savings bug persists. Every time that I post an appointment time, it automatically changes to an hour earlier... which is the incorrect time.

Some of my recurring events seem to be creeping forward in time. I have an event set to "ev friday @ 4:00pm", and when I edit it, that's still what it says, but it's showing up at 12:00am on Saturday.

I, too, am getting 500 Server Error when adding an item, using either open-uri or net/http, in Ruby.

I also get that error if I use wget from the command line.

However, pasting the URI into Firefox seems to work fine.

links and lynx (text-based browsers) do fail with the 500 error.

James

API should now be fixed. I am really sorry it has taken so much time. I will in the future improve the speed of such critical fixes.

Kind regards,
Amir

Would love to be able to enter dates in US format. Any chance of that happening?

Cannot delete labels (premium user).
Search is not accurate.
Please fix this!
Thanks!

Hi Amir, I've sent you an email 2 weeks ago with questions regarding the Premium version. The IT/Marketing departments at my company would like to use your product (the pay/premium version), but we cannot move forward until I hear back from you.

This comment has my email address attached, which is the same email address that I contacted you from.

Please be in touch if you would like our business.

Thanks.

I'm trying to add an appointment on 21st April @ 1:10 pm but it automatically change it to 12:10 pm which is wrong! Also, I've added a couple of tasks that repeat every monday but I've stopped receiving new reminders and it only shows that the last reminder was 7 days ago instead of saying it's due today again!

never mind I found that I was not completing my recurring tasks and hence it kept showing the last date. Still need a fix for the time saving bug though

Jason:
It's actually possible. If you go into Preferences (located at top right).

Andy:
Search is improved. I'll look into the labels issue in the upcoming days.

Erum:
What time zone are you located in?

Jon L:
Will answer your email ASAP.

Hi Amir, thanks for your fast response and fixes! Search seems to work for me now, and so does label deletion. Firefox sidebar does not copy the gmail subjects when adding a mail, but I can use the "delegate to todoist" bookmarklet instead, which is fine for me. I´ve tried or tested nearly all ToDo-Services in and out the web, but there isnt even one I can think of as a second place winner. Without todoist, I'd be lost in chaos! Excellent work!

Glad to see that you guys are now working hard to improving the great app that is Todoist.
I'm still looking forwarding to the Iphone app that is tempting me to go to RTM (although todoist's simplicity is holding me back).

The todoist launchy program appears to be broken again.

the daylight savings bug is still a problem. For example, If I input a task for June 3, 2009 at 9:00 am, it will automatically change to 8:00 am.

Hi. Indeed, I see a daylight savings bug as well. I'm located in U.S. Central time zone.

When I set a task for "8 mar @ 15:00", it changes it to 14:00.
When I set a task for "7 mar @ 15:00", it saves correctly at 15:00.

Note that DST begins on 8 March, 2009.

Thanks for the awesome Todoist! I love it and recommend it regularly. Cheers

Hi Amir, you never got in touch with me, so we were forced to go with another solution.

You have a good product, but I get the feeling you're a bit overwhelmed. It might help you to add some staffers.

Cheers

When I enter a task with no completion time specified, it goes to "overdue" status. This seems to happen at 5pm, Pacific Time. It used to happen at midnight, which makes more sense to me, and changed about a week ago.

PS At the same time, it starts including tomorrow's tasks in the number of tasks to be completed, while still only actually showing today's.

I have the tomorrow's tasks showing up in today's task list as well. Don't seem related to overdue tasks though.

What timezones are you using?

Regards,
Amir

I'm in the Pacific timezone.

I have a time issue that does not appear to be related to Daylight Savings, as it's not shifting me by only an hour. Actually, I haven't been able to pin down the pattern at all, but sometimes when I enter an appointment, it will save as several hours (from about 4 up to maybe 15 hours or so) later. I can then edit the item to put in the correct date and time without a problem.

I'm in EST timezone, and I generally enter the appointment in this format: "4/23 @10:00am".

The title of the article is great.It is a brillian idea to ask the readers to do or not to do if you want to hear the reply. I've read a lot of similar expressions in one pdf file which I found at the http://pdf.rapid4me.com but I never saw them being used like this. The impression is the best, really.

How to write a rucurring event for 10 days? It don't accept until / from ##/## to ##/## or anything like that.

Would love to be able to enter dates in US format. Any chance of that happening? I found some details about it on http://filepasswords.com but still unable.

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