According to the RDATE spec (4.8.5.3 Recurrence Date/Times) you can use the "PERIOD" type (see 4.3.9 Period of Time) to specify multiple dates/durations. However, Google doesn't seem to support this part of the spec. I've hoped this would work for a long time (Lotus Notes 8 uses this extensivly when exporting .ics files) but never heard back when reporting the problem.
Here's a single event .ics file that won't import into google calendar: BEGIN:VCALENDAR X-LOTUS-CHARSET:UTF-8 VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lotus Development Corporation//NONSGML Notes 8.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19501105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:19500312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID="Eastern":20070206T130000 DTEND;TZID="Eastern":20070206T140000 TRANSP:OPAQUE RDATE;VALUE=PERIOD:20070206T180000Z/20070206T190000Z ,20070213T180000Z/20070213T190000Z DTSTAMP:20061220T211705Z CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION: SUMMARY:This is a meeting UID:72774819E1F808278525724A00749A38-Lotus_Notes_Generated X-LOTUS-PARITAL-REPEAT:TRUE X-LOTUS-UPDATE-SEQ:1 X-LOTUS-UPDATE-WISL:$S:1;$L:1;$B:1;$R:1;$E:1;$W:1;$O:1;$M:1 X-LOTUS-START;TZID="Eastern":20070206T130000 X-LOTUS-END;TZID="Eastern":20070206T140000 X-LOTUS-NOTESVERSION:2 X-LOTUS-NOTICETYPE:A X-LOTUS-APPTTYPE:3 X-LOTUS-CHILD_UID:62E016A04AB4D48C852572880064BF02 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR On Jul 8, 5:18 pm, "Austin (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I know from the ical spechttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txtthat > if all the instances have the same duration then you can create a recurring > event with RDATEs. Otherwise there is no other options. > > Hope that helps, > Austin > > > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Cobrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any way to have an event run on multiple dates, instead of a > > single date or span? I looked into recurring dates, but RDATE doesn't > > work, and the dates I'm pulling don't fit easily into recurring event > > schemes. > > > Thanks in advance.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
