[TW-1601] Taskwarrior creates recurring tasks with wait dates way into the future

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neingeist on 2015-04-24T18:04:44Z says:

Taskwarrior creates recurring tasks way into the future, if certain conditions are met:

  $ task waiting balance
 
  ID  Age D P Project  R Wait       for       Due        Description                    
  794 2d    H finances R 2017-12-22 2.7 years 2015-04-25 balance expenseregister checken

This task was created with a wait date 2.7 years into the future. This seems to be the case because the parent task had a wait date set by setting a wait date on another child task earlier and answering "y" to the "Do you want to modify all pending recurrences of this same task? (yes/no)" question. When creating a new child task, recur.cpp then calculates (old_wait - old_due) with the values from the parent task, and uses this as the wait date for the newly created child task. This amounts , in this case, to 2.7y.

Please also see IRC discussion on 2014-04-24 for possible more detailed information: https://botbot.me/freenode/taskwarrior/2015-04-24/

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Created: 2015-04-24T18:04:44Z
Modified: 2017-01-16T17:31:33Z

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Paul Beckingham on 2017-01-16T17:31:33Z says:

Good catch. Assigned to 2.6.0.