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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Apple iCal & korganizer..
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-10-09 21:37:09
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On Tuesday 01 October 2002 02:02, Guenter Schwann wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 01 October 2002 01:39, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > I don't think that's a bug in KOrganizer. This use of start and end
> > dates doesn't make any sense. The iCalendar spec says that a
> > DTSTART without a time and without a DTEND is used to specifiy
> > events which doesn't consume any time, like anniversaries. So
> > adding a DTEND does make it consume time and I fail to see why the
> > DTEND shouldn't consume a day like the DTSTART does.
>
> I guess they do an all-day-event by beginning at 0:00 at that day,
> and ending it by 0:00 the next day. And if no time is given, they use
> 0:00. Should we use this as an option? Does anyone have more exmaples
> of different programs? (evolution seems to do it the apple-ical way)

Ok, I found it. RFC 2445 says that the DTEND propoperty specifies the 
non-inclusive end of the event. That means Apple is correct and we have 
to change KOrganizer accordingly (which includes a compatibility layer 
for calendar files written with previous versions of Korganizer).

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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