Re: group for help with .cal files
Nadegda <[email protected]>
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Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt! On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:47:57 -0400, bill wrote: > On 3/23/2022 3:27 PM, Paul wrote: >> On 3/23/2022 2:09 PM, bill wrote: >>> Can anyone suggest a newsgroup to which I can turn for help in >>> writing an .ical (icalendar) file interpreter? >>> Thanks, >>> -bill >> >> Wikipedia ? >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar >> >> iCalendar >> >> Filename extension >> .ical, .ics, .ifb, .icalendar >> >> Type of format Calendar data exchange >> Standard RFC 5545 (Updated by: RFC 5546, RFC 6868, RFC >> 7529, RFC 7986) >> Open format? Yes >> >> Try opening with a text editor ? >> >> And after that, maybe Linux has a library for it. Because >> if there were any calendar programs, they might call a common >> library or something. >> >> Paul > > Thanks Paul. I am writing an application that takes the .ical > file and displays the current week's appointments for a > cognitively impaired woman (a dynamic whiteboard of appointments). > > I have everything working but the repetitive appointments and > despite having read the rfcs I can't figure out how to calculate > the dates. > > I am writing in php. Well, *there's* your mistake, right there. :P > I really need someone who knows the .ical format to give me a hand. I doubt there's a specific newsgroup for that, so your best bet would likely be the comp.lang group for whichever language you switch to. -- FNVWe Nadegda "By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you." -- Mike Godwin, Aug 13, 2017, 8:03 PM Checkmate admits that, for all intents and purposes, he carries a teddy bear in public: <[email protected]>