[uf-discuss] Events with no duration; and end of daylight saving time

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Sun Aug 27 05:10:23 PDT 2006


In message
<21e770780608261633l55cfc621x9493db14acae78ca at mail.gmail.com>, Brian
Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> writes

>On 8/26/06, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> What's the correct way to mark up an hCal for an event which has no
>> duration?
>
>The only two properties that are required (besides the class="vevent")
>are SUMMARY and DTSTART.
>
>If there is no end-date or duration this can simply be omitted.

Thank you.

>> And what's the correct way in which to mark up the event when, at the
>> end of daylight saving time, clocks go back from 3am to 2am - as a
>> single event at 3am?
>
>I don't think this is an issue for hCalendar. If you have an event
>that passes between the start/stop of daylight savings you have
>several options to mark-up the event. (NOTE: this only effects events
>with specifc start/stop TIMES)

I fear you misunderstand me - I don't mean an event which overlaps the
time-change; I mean the time-change itself; see 29 October on:

        http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/indexEXPAND.htm

(draft page; dummy data).

I think I need to add some timezone info to the start and end times on
that page - how?

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