Repeating task Last day of month skips one month

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Hi,
When you set a repeating task on the last day of the month and you mark it as completed, the next date for the task is 2 months ahead instead of on the next month.

I guess this could be a bug, maybe when the next month is shorter than the current…

Hope you could fix it, because it’s pretty easy to miss the misplaced task date.

Thanks in advance,
Javier

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Welcome to the Forum @Javier_Di_Deco_Sampe and thank you for reaching out! :wave:

Can you please share a screenshot on how the recurrence is set up? It would be really helpful to understand the behaviour behind it.

P.S: I’m moving your post to the #tipsandtricks category. I hope you don’t mind.

Looking forward to your reply!

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I am having the same problem.

Use case:

  1. Create task with start/due dates as 5/10/2020 - 5/31/2020
  2. Set task to Repeat on the “Last” day of the month
  3. Complete the task on June 3rd, 2020
  4. Notice: Repeated task is created with new start/due dates as 7/10/2020 - 7/31/2020 (it SKIPPED June)

Now, let’s continue the use case to see if maybe it just doesn’t like 30-day months:

  1. Complete the new task on June 3rd, 2020
  2. Notice: Repeated task is created with new start/due dates as 8/10/2020-8/31/2020 (this is expected)
  3. Complete the new task on June 3rd, 2020
  4. Notice: Repeated task is created with new start/due date as 9/9/2020-9/30/2020 (this expected)

Looks like it’s not about the 30-day months (otherwise it would’ve skipped September, as well).

Is this a bug or expected behavior?

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Hi Natalia,
Sorry for the (very) late reply. I must had missed the notification email back in October.
Now I’ve seen it because of @Dimitri_Hammond response to the thread.

I’m afraid I can’t provide you the details about how I set up the recurrence in October, and now I’m not being able to reproduce the bug.

Maybe Dimitri’s steps give you a hint. Maybe it has something to do with the day on you actually set up the task and its recurrence…

Thanks,
Javier