On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:27:30AM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Martijn van Beers wrote: > > > gives: > > [19700329T020000..19701025T030000], > > [19710328T020000..19711031T030000], > > [19720326T020000..19721030T030000] > > > > The format of the time strings and the recurrence rules are defined > > in the iCalendar rfc (2445). This was used because the primary use > > of Date::Set was going to be Net::ICal. (not that I'm aware of > > any other syntaxes to specify recurrences in) > > Wouldn't it be better to specify them in something a little more primitive > (numbers, not a string)?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'them'. If it is recurrence rules, then no, I don't think you want to specify them as something more primitive. the strings are nicely compact, and you aren't going to make it more clear by making people generate big data structures by hand instead. Martijn
