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This is not a bug. It's common sense. You can't make an event on the 29th of February repeat yearly because the 29th of February doesn't repeat yearly. This isn
by DanielStraight 16y ago
This is not a bug. It's common sense. You can't make an event on the 29th of February repeat yearly because the 29th of February doesn't repeat yearly. This isn't Google's fault. Set the event for the day you actually celebrate her birthday. That will repeat yearly. Problem solved.
- Khao 16y agoI think that since February 29th is an exception in our calendar it should ask if this event should repeat every 4 years (real 29th) or repeat every year (fallback to 28th or March 1st). I think it's common sense that setting an event to "yearly" even though that date doesn't exist every year should still happen every year. Edit : Anyone know how it handles an event created monthly on the 31st of each month?
- raphar 16y agoI understand your point of view. But she, and also millions of people, are no software guys. They don't get it. Also my complain is about the dialog where you add the event. As I said, If I choose to repeat weekly the calendar has no problem to generate an event every 7 days, but with years it clearly fails.
- bartonfink 16y agoSo let's say that Google decided to repeat the event every 365 days, using the analog of a perfect 7-day week as you did above. That means that every 4 years, Google's "birthday" is going to fall one day further behind your friend's actual birthday, which is clearly incorrect. I think the correct answer, as was stated above, is to simply ask someone whether they want this to repeat annually on Feb. 28 excepting leap years OR if they can accept the 4-year cycle.