DPM wrote: >> Perhaps part of my confusion stems from the fact that using the >> start-min is now limited to events that start from Jan 1970. This makes >> it impossible to get grandpa's birthday event, and an entire (large) >> class of events that start before Jan 1970. Therefore the start-min >> approach must not be used. > > I suspect that you are misinterpreting the documentation on > http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html > > "start-min Earliest event start time to match. If not specified, > default is 1970-01-01. " > > 1970 is the default if you don't provide a "start-min", but you can > always set an earlier value. For instance, I just plopped some WWII > events on my calendar, and searching for them worked fine. > [http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/XXXXX/private/full?start-min=1940-10-02&start-max=1950-10-04] > > Most likely the Google Calendar folks limited the default range a bit > to keep things fast, but nothing is hard coded to prevent using wider > ranges.
I'm glad to see that's possible in some fashion, it just seems impossible with the GData Java API because it uses a Date object to hold the start-min value, and Date objects can't define a time earlier than Jan 1970. Cheers. -- http://www.ScheduleWorld.com/ Free Google Calendar synchronization with Outlook, Evolution, cell phones, BlackBerry, PalmOS, Exchange, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Pocket PC/Windows Mobile. Also sync tasks, notes and contacts! WebDAV, vfreebusy, RSS, LDAP, iCalendar, iTIP, iMIP support. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
