[Ietf-calsify] Resolutions of issues 8, 68 and 69: DST discontinuities

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Jonathan,

--On March 1, 2007 12:27:50 PM -0500 Jonathan Lennox 
<lennox at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> The third bullet point here is the potentially controversial one, and
> would be an incompatible change with 2445.  Does anyone currently generate
> DURATION values of the form "P1DT8H"?
>

Yes, Mulberry will, for whatever its worth. In fact it explicitly allows 
users to set Durations for events using a UI that exposed fields for Days, 
Hours, Minutes and Seconds (or just Weeks). Note that I wrote the iCalendar 
library to manipulate dates as separate components for years, months, days, 
hours, minutes, seconds - i.e. handling "nominal" durations is easy.

I think Jeffrey's comment is right - there is nothing wrong with mixing 
nominal and accurate in this case.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo