# Recurring date is showing wrong next date

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/recurring-date-is-showing-wrong-next-date/173852>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [December 20, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recurring-date-is-showing-wrong-next-date/173852 "2020-12-20T16:26:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recurring-date-is-showing-wrong-next-date/173852/1 "2020-12-20T16:26:54Z")

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I’m trying to set up a recurring date as follows:

```plaintext
[date=2021-01-24 time=08:30:00 timezone="America/New_York" recurring="1.weeks"]

```

Since this date is in the future, it should show January 24, 2021 as the next occurrence. Instead, it’s showing February 28, 2021.

Actual date:  
2021-01-24T13:30:00Z

Screenshot from post preview (in case the preview shows it differently):  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/1/013c23f2d689e97f3b9ad2c9f858fcd02e0eb596.png)

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Changing the date to 2021-01-25 jumps the date all the way to March 8, 2021, skipping 8 days instead of 1 day. Every 7th day it jumps an extra week, which seems to be why the date is so off. Am I doing something wrong here? Maybe there’s an edge case with creating recurring dates that are in the future in general or in a future year specifically.

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