HabitRPG/habitica

Dailies set to repeat monthly on X day of week show as due the day after completion

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#15,496 opened on Aug 26, 2025

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Description

When creating a daily set to repeat monthly on 'Day of Week', (e.g. the 5th week on Monday) but the start date occurs before this day (e.g. 2025-08-24, the fourth week on Monday, as there are only four Mondays), the daily will show as due the day after it is marked as completed.

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Research direction
Examine the repeating daily scheduling logic in the codebase, focusing on monthly day of week repeats and the completion date calculation.
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javascript
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backend
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