[Kde-pim] vzic (Was:libical 0.27 is now available)

Tue Mar 27 02:34:55 BST 2007

On Monday 26 March 2007 19:17:49 Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 27. März 2007 schrieb Allen Winter:
> > The generated America/New_York.ics is attached .
> > Please review and let me know if it looks ok.
>
> It looks okay, but I wonder why the dates for past DST rules are expanded
> to RDATE:19870405T020000
> RDATE:19880403T020000
> RDATE:19890402T020000
> RDATE:19900401T020000
> RDATE:19910407T020000
> RDATE:19920405T020000
> RDATE:19930404T020000
> RDATE:19940403T020000
> RDATE:19950402T020000
> RDATE:19960407T020000
> RDATE:19970406T020000
> RDATE:19980405T020000
> RDATE:19990404T020000
> .....
>
>
>  instead of simply using an RRULE with an UNTIL rule part... E.g. RFC 2445
> gives such an example:
>      BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
>      DTSTART:19870405T020000
>      RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4;UNTIL=19980404T070000Z
>      TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
>      TZOFFSETTO:-0400
>      TZNAME:EDT
>      END:DAYLIGHT
>
> This is much shorter...

Is one more correct than the other?  Would it be wrong to put in the timezone 
files the way that Allen has the file now?  Or do you think it 's worth it to 
try to fix (?) the vzic code first?

Thanks for the CPU cycles Reinhold!!!  =:D

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