Is this a bug?

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Eng Khoon

Can someone please try this and see if you get the same problem?

In Calendar, select a date a few months ahead using the forward button in
the small calendar box at the bottom left corner. Then press Cmd-T to go to
Today. The dates in the current month calendar become all wrong.

It's February 2004 now and if I do the above and Cmd-T to get back to Today,
my February dates get all mixed up. It even has 31 days!
 
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Diane Ross

Can someone please try this and see if you get the same problem?

In Calendar, select a date a few months ahead using the forward button in
the small calendar box at the bottom left corner. Then press Cmd-T to go to
Today. The dates in the current month calendar become all wrong.

It's February 2004 now and if I do the above and Cmd-T to get back to Today,
my February dates get all mixed up. It even has 31 days!
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I tried it and had no problem at all. Try creating a new identity and see if
the problem happens in a clean identity. If it does, then create a new User
in System Preferences and test there.

Let me know what you find.

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Create a new Identity: Select Switch Identity under Entourage in the menu
bar. Create a new test identity. Test for your problem. Sometimes you need
to recreate account info to test. If the problems disappear, then you know
it's a problem with your database. Try a rebuild.
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Create a new user. In System Preferences: Users: create a new user. Log
Out/In to new user. Open Entourage and see if the problems go away. (You
might need to recreate your account info.) If problems disappear then you
know it's a conflict or corruption in your user folder.
 
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David Blaymires

I tried it and had no problem at all. Try creating a new identity and see if
the problem happens in a clean identity. If it does, then create a new User
in System Preferences and test there.

Let me know what you find.

======
Create a new Identity: Select Switch Identity under Entourage in the menu
bar. Create a new test identity. Test for your problem. Sometimes you need
to recreate account info to test. If the problems disappear, then you know
it's a problem with your database. Try a rebuild.
======
Create a new user. In System Preferences: Users: create a new user. Log
Out/In to new user. Open Entourage and see if the problems go away. (You
might need to recreate your account info.) If problems disappear then you
know it's a conflict or corruption in your user folder.
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Hi Diane,

Its a bug alright, I can recreate it on demand. A blow by blow description:

Open the calendar window.
In the bottom left corner of the window, click on the forward arrow to
display a month in the future - where the current month is not displayed in
the list of months.
Click on a date in that month, so that date is displayed in the main
calendar area of the window.
Press Cmmd-T (the command for Go To Today).

At this point, the months will be redrawn (I have 3 displayed in my window,
but you can resize the area to display more or less), and February will
appear with the number of days for the month that WAS displayed in the main
part of the calendar window - i.e. If it was 24 April I had displayed,
February will be displayed with 30 days, if it was 24 May that was
displayed, February will be displayed with 31 days.

I don't know if this will continue to be a problem outside of February (why
don't we just define February as 31 days...?...!!!) but as it stands now, it
qualifies as a bug - not an earth-shattering, my computer won't function any
more type bug, just an interesting bug.

They¹ve probably fixed it already in Office 2004.
 
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Eng Khoon

Hi Diane,

Its a bug alright, I can recreate it on demand. A blow by blow description:

Open the calendar window.
In the bottom left corner of the window, click on the forward arrow to
display a month in the future - where the current month is not displayed in
the list of months.
Click on a date in that month, so that date is displayed in the main
calendar area of the window.
Press Cmmd-T (the command for Go To Today).

At this point, the months will be redrawn (I have 3 displayed in my window,
but you can resize the area to display more or less), and February will
appear with the number of days for the month that WAS displayed in the main
part of the calendar window - i.e. If it was 24 April I had displayed,
February will be displayed with 30 days, if it was 24 May that was
displayed, February will be displayed with 31 days.

I don't know if this will continue to be a problem outside of February (why
don't we just define February as 31 days...?...!!!) but as it stands now, it
qualifies as a bug - not an earth-shattering, my computer won't function any
more type bug, just an interesting bug.

They¹ve probably fixed it already in Office 2004.
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I thought I should add that to get back the dates in proper order, I can
press either forward or backward buttons so that the "affected" months are
not displayed and press the buttons back until I reach the current month.

Switching to another view (say, Mail or Address view) and switching back
doesn't get rid of it.

Well, I think we ought to bring this to Microsoft's attention for them to
fix it in this version. Not everyone has the bucks to shell out for new
versions.

Regards
engkhoon
 
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