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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] icaldir Proposal
From:       David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date:       2006-02-09 22:11:44
Message-ID: 20060209221221.21885.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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On Thursday 9 February 2006 19:12, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
>I agree with your point--everyone using the icaldir _must_ work with a
>common set of VTIMEZONE data or all hell will break lose.
>
>One way to ensure this is to use a timezone registry file (as the ical
>RFC allows), and put this registry file in the icaldir. Then have the
>spec limit TZID's to reference this registry.
>
>This answer's David J's concerns as well--if an app needs a new
>VTIMEZONE object, they must add it to the registry.
>
>So the time zone registry is a subdirectory, with one file for each
>VTIMEZONE object.
>
>Hey, what do you know? That's what /usr/share/zoneinfo looks like. That
>seems like a good sign ... ;)

But what if the received VTIMEZONE object has the same TZID as an existing 
registry entry, but differs in its definition?

--
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html
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