Re: dtend removed? (Re: draft-royer-ical-basic-01.txt - sent to IETF)

This discussion belongs in CALSIFY - not CALDAV.


Sam Roberts wrote:
> Quoting [email protected], on Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:11:43PM -0700:
> 
>>I send -01 of iCal-Basis to the IETF. It fixed some problems and
>>typos that were sent to me and the lists. It also deprecates DTEND and
>>replaced the examples and ABNF with DURATION.
> 
> 
> dtstart/dtend and dtstart/duration are equivalent ONLY for single
> non-recurring events.


> A yearly event on that starts at april second   3PM, and goes until
> april 3 6PM will have different durations. This year it falls on
> DST. The duration will be different next year.
> 
> Anything starting on the 25th and going to the "-1th"/last day of the
> month will have a different duration every month. Etc.
> 
> It's also trivial to support doing the calculation of duration/dtend for
> a specific event.
> 
> Do you ever intend to support recurring events again?
> 
> I just hours ago wrote a little server that publishes all the birthdays
> in my address book as text/calendar over http, which is handy because my
> calendar program now subscribes to it. Those birthdays recur!
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
>>Copy at:
>>
>>	http://inet-consulting.com/draft-royer-ical-basic-01.txt
>>
>>And HTML version at:
>>
>>	http://inet-consulting.com/draft-royer-ical-basic-01.html
>>	
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