[Ietf-calsify] [issue] when BY extends past last occurrence

Eliot Lear lear at ofcourseimright.com
Tue Jun 13 00:01:39 PDT 2006


Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:

> -) Section 4.3.10 says:
>    "If BYxxx rule part values are found which are beyond the available
>    scope (ie, BYMONTHDAY=30 in February), they are simply ignored."
> 
> Here an example should be given (what the available scope is and what ignored 
> means here). E.g.
> 
>   DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna: 20050201T120000
>   RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYMONTHDAY=30;FREQ=3
> results in occurrences on 1 Feb 2006, 30 May 2006, 30 Aug 2006, 30 Nov 2006, 
> 30 May 2006.
> I.e. "they are simply ignored" means that the whole occurrence is ignored, not 
> the rule part value (which would result in the day being taken from the 
> DTSTART) .

So what is needed here is a normative clarification of what is ignored.
 Do you have some preferred text you would like to propose?

Eliot


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