[Ietf-calsify] DTEND for day events

[Lisa Dusseault]

Anybody have text to propose for RFC2445 bis to improve the clarity of 
this?

lisa

On Sep 1, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> Hi Neal,
>
>> rfc2445 is unclear if the DTEND is inclusive or exclusive when both 
>> the
>> DTSTART and DTEND are DATEs.
>
> To find the language about this, you have to look in the (not
> intuitively located) VEVENT definition.  It says:
>
> The "DTSTART" property for a "VEVENT" specifies the inclusive start
>    of the event. For recurring events, it also specifies the very first
>    instance in the recurrence set. The "DTEND" property for a "VEVENT"
>    calendar component specifies the non-inclusive end of the event.
>
> It doesn't say anything specific about DATE valued events, so DTEND is
> always exclusive.
>
> In practice, Apple's iCal always exports one-day all-day events with an
> explicit DTEND of the day after the start.  I scratched my head about
> that for a while, too, till I looked in VEVENT.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey Harris
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