repeat every day until decrements end date on task completion

[ArneBouillon]

Please check that this issue hasn't been reported before.

• I searched previous Bug Reports didn't find any similar reports.

Expected Behavior

If I add the following repeating task

and I complete it, I expect Tasks to create a new instance with the same end date and tomorrow as the due date.

Current behaviour

The end date is decremented in both the completed and the new task:

If I complete one more, the old completed task is left alone, but the newest two are again decremented:

Steps to reproduce

The task from the screenshots above was:

- [ ] #task Do stuff  [repeat:: every day until July 4, 2024]  [due:: 2024-06-19]

Which Operating Systems are you using?

• Android
• iPhone/iPad
• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Obsidian Version

v1.6.3

Tasks Plugin Version

v7.4.0

Checks

• I have tried it with all other plugins disabled and the error still occurs

Possible solution

No response

[ArneBouillon]

I found this bug report, which is definitely related: #1818

Fixing that issue probably fixes this one too; however, it may be possible to fix this case without having a general fix for the rrule parser, by copying the repeat part for the new task without having it pass through the parser again.

[claremacrae]

Hi,

until is not a documented feature of Tasks, because it is known not to work.

See this section of the documentation, which links to the exact issue you quoted - #1818:
https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Getting+Started/Recurring+Tasks#No%20way%20to%20recur%20until%20a%20specific%20date

So, could you please say in what way exactly this differs from #1818 - what extra work does it require the differs from that issue, in order for this one not to be a duplicate?

Many thanks. 😄

[ArneBouillon]

My apologies, the Tasks syntax is often so intuitive that I don't need to check the documentation 🤦

If it's an undocumented feature, I think it makes sense to wait until #1818 can be fully resolved. I'll close this issue. Thanks for the great work on this plug-in!

[claremacrae]

Hi Arne, thanks for your understanding.

[claremacrae]

Steps to reproduce

The task from the screenshots above was:

- [ ] #task Do stuff  [repeat:: every day until July 4, 2024]  [due:: 2024-06-19]

I appreciate your including the text, but for future reference, there isn't enough information in this "Steps to reproduce" to do anything useful in investigating this issue.