[Ietf-calsify] Section 4.6.1 Event Component: Value of missing DTEND when DTSTART; VALUE=DATE

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2006 20:54 schrieb Bernard Desruisseaux:
> In section 4.6.1 Event Component of RFC 2445 it says:
> > For cases where a "VEVENT" calendar component specifies a "DTSTART"
> > property with a DATE data type but no "DTEND" property, the events
> > non-inclusive end is the end of the calendar date specified by the
> > "DTSTART" property.
>
> The events "non-inclusive end" should be the start of the day following
> the calendar date specified by the "DTSTART" property. Otherwise,
> 23:59:59 would not be part of the event...

Mathematically speaking, 23:59:59 is NOT the end of the day (there's still one 
whole second left!). 
23:59:59.99999999999999999999999999999999...=0:00:00.0 
is the end of the day. That's the non-inclusive end, just as the RFC says.


Cheers,
Reinhold

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