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

Cyrus Daboo daboo at isamet.com
Fri Oct 29 14:02:28 PDT 2004


Hi Mark,

--On Friday, October 29, 2004 3:25:21 PM EDT -0400 Mark Swanson 
<mark at scheduleworld.com> wrote:

>> 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?
>
> Well, I have this exact model working in production and someone in EST
> can  schedule RRULEs with someone in PST just fine - even crossing
> EDT/EST  boundaries. The caveat is that you can't cross the midnight
> boundary as  previously described. Perhaps you could post the steps you
> took to test this?

Perhaps you can post the VEVENT objects for that so we can see how it works 
with UTC only. Personally I do not see how it can, but I'm prepared to be 
persuaded otherwise...

-- 
Cyrus Daboo


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