On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:27 AM, Mark Mansour wrote:
Hi, I've written about my experience with dates and datetimes whilst writing the hCalendar parser [http://www.lifelint.com/blog/2006/02/08/all-day-events/] There are two recommendations - the wording on how timezones are handled needs to be changed; and - the way datetimes are handled could be changed, but unfortunately it would affect hCard.
I presume this sums up your issue:
So back to Christmas. According to hCalendar, the correct way to represent Christmas in iCal is 20061225T000000 instead of 20061225, but we’ve now transformed a date into a ‘floating’ (timezoneless) datetime. Is it the end of the world - no, not at all, but it just seems a little clunky. Do I want the spec changed? I can live with it the way it is, but I think it is more cleanly represented as a date.
Which is really a moot point, because there is no 'date' type in iCalendar, only datetime, so, in effect, 20061225 = 20061225T000000, they're both datetimes.
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