Sorry, I hadn't realized the iCalendar constraint. As you were.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Brian Suda wrote: > One of the problems in switching date formats is that you introduce > incompatibilties between the specifications. iCalendar datetimes have > certain limitations - i don't think you can represent 40,000 BCE. > Something that might be possible in other formats. > > If we switched to using RFC3339, how do you map those sort of dates > BACK to the ics format? you can't - ultimately hCalendar is a mapping > to iCalendar. We have enough of strugle getting Outlook to work with > valid iCalendar files as it is - changing the date format would cause > more interoperablity problems. > > That's my two cents. > -brian > > On 8/23/06, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:15:46PM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote: > >> I've noticed that RFC2445 requires the date-time format to have no > >punctuation, eg. > >> > >> yyyymmddThhmmss > >> > >> The hCalendar examples on > >http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar#Example have > >> punctuation, eg. > >> > >> yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss > >> > >> which is more like RFC3339 (and better for both humans and machines, > >IMHO -- the > >> timezone descriptors in RFC2445 are awful!) > > > >A big +1 to RFC 3339 and ISO 8601! > > > >Peter > > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
