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Re: [calsify] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5545 (5920)

Doug Royer <douglasroyer@gmail.com> Wed, 27 November 2019 14:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [calsify] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5545 (5920)
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> On 11/26/19 19:50, Neil Jenkins wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, at 08:40, Doug Royer wrote:
>>> Did (do?) some implementations not do this?
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>> Definitely; in my testing in the past I think most clients could be made to generate an RRULE that doesn't match the start date. That's why in JSCalendar we dropped the requirement and defined how to interpret it regardless (I still think your UI will be clearer if you make them align, but that's another matter).
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>  From the human perspective I'm not sure.
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> I suspect the general way of thinking is along the lines of
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> "I want a meeting every thursday at 14:00 starting next week."
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> Why should the UI force a user into figuring out the date and time of the first instance? What if DST starts that weekend?
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> Data models should be very encompassing and unambiguous. UIs are the translation between the messy human perceptions and the exact world we developers live in.

Let the UI figure it out. The user just picks the pattern. The DTSTAMP would be set to the current date.


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