[Ietf-calsify] dtend removed? (Re: draft-royer-ical-basic-01.txt - sent to IETF)

[Sam Roberts]

Quoting Doug at royer.com, on Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:11:43PM -0700:
> I send -01 of iCal-Basis to the IETF. It fixed some problems and
> typos that were sent to me and the lists. It also deprecates DTEND and
> replaced the examples and ABNF with DURATION.

dtstart/dtend and dtstart/duration are equivalent ONLY for single
non-recurring events.

A yearly event on that starts at april second   3PM, and goes until
april 3 6PM will have different durations. This year it falls on
DST. The duration will be different next year.

Anything starting on the 25th and going to the "-1th"/last day of the
month will have a different duration every month. Etc.

It's also trivial to support doing the calculation of duration/dtend for
a specific event.

Do you ever intend to support recurring events again?

I just hours ago wrote a little server that publishes all the birthdays
in my address book as text/calendar over http, which is handy because my
calendar program now subscribes to it. Those birthdays recur!

Sam


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