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

Bobby Rullo br at osafoundation.org
Tue Oct 2 13:31:48 PDT 2007


Yeah, I say go for it.

On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Randy Letness wrote:

> 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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