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Re: [VCARDDAV] New Date Range Proposal

Renato Iannella <renato@iannella.it> Thu, 14 October 2010 04:52 UTC

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On 13 Oct 2010, at 23:53, Cyrus Daboo wrote:

> We need to allow for open-ended ranges, i.e., ones where the start or end are not specified. I am not sure that ISO8601 provides for that, so we may need to adjust the syntax for our needs (e.g. use a single "*" to indicate open ended - so 2001/* means from 2001 onwards).

Sure, or just "2001/" will do.

> We need to be clear about whether the start and end represent "inclusive" or "exclusive" values.
> In iCalendar the DTSTART value is inclusive, but DTEND is exclusive

Being consistent with iCal is good idea.

> I would prefer the value type name to be "PERIOD" to align it with iCalendar.

Sure

> We could probably shorten the name to just "EFFECTIVE".

Sure

Cheers

Renato Iannella
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