[Cosmo-dev] Bad ICS already extant

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Folks,

> My issues was that ical4j doesn't like date properties without time that
> don't have "VALUE=DATE", which is ironic considering it was ical4j
> itself that created the ics in question! Apparently this IS a
> requirement in the spec, but according to our resident icalendar guru (a
> Mr. J Harris) there are many clients which emit data like this out there
> - iCal being one of them (not for DTSTART, DTEND, but for Alarms
> apparently)

For the record, I led Bobby astray, I was thinking of a different iCal
issue with alarms, not a VALUE=DATE issue, so I don't think iCal is the
culprit.  But the general point stands, lots of clients emit invalid
iCalendar data.  I've reluctantly made Chandler tolerant when importing
such data, but as far as I know Chandler isn't exporting invalid iCalendar.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey