[Ietf-calsify] timezone/rrule standard/basic proposal

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Folks,

I'm sorry, I'm just not following how an RRULE like "1PM every Monday" 
will work in UTC, when the user is in a timezone whose UTC offset 
changes with DST.  Seems like this will fail about this time of year 
regardless of whether I'm interacting with people in different 
timezones.  Am I missing something?

Sincerely,
Jeffrey

> Here's a thought:
> 
> The simple/basic version of ICalendar would not use timezones and everything 
> is in UTC.  Applications that implement the simple version would have a big 
> warning sticker that described the limitation of two people/recur/cross 
> midnight problem.
> 
> The full version would use timezones and handle rrules properly. A small 
> office that had everyone in the same building could use the 'lite' version 
> and larger/distributed organizations (and/or people) could use software that 
> implements the full (perhaps more expensive) version.
> 
> I know there is some resistance to providing a spec that isn't perfect, but I 
> think the case above is a real-world compromise.
> 
> Thoughts?