[Cosmo-dev] ical bug with VALUE=DATE-TIME parameter in .ics

Randy Letness randy at osafoundation.org
Tue Oct 2 13:13:57 PDT 2007


There have been a few bugs regarding ical's handling of .ics exported 
from cosmo.  The issue boils down to bug 10558:

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10558

Basically, ical doesn't like it when a date propety includes a 
VALUE=DATE-TIME parameter.  This is valid icalendar, but for some reason 
ical doesn't like it and weird things happen such as the date losing its 
timezone.  So should cosmo remove VALUE=DATE-TIME (its redundant because 
its the default) when exporting to .ics?  Apple should fix their client 
to accept this valid icalendar but for all those clients out there that 
are broken should we accommodate them by making sure not to include this 
parameter in the exported .ics?

-Randy


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