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.

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