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

[Brian Suda]

On 8/27/06, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
> I think I need to add some timezone info to the start and end times on
> that page - how?

Well, you can do this several ways, and you'll have to test it on
various calendar applications to see what happens.

Option 1: Don't use an end date
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-10-29T03:00:00">End Daylight Savings</abbr>

Option 2: Explicit Timezone and a 1 second duration
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-10-29T03:00:00-0500">End Daylight
Savings</abbr>
<abbr class="dtend" title="2006-10-29T02:00:01-0600">Start Normal Time</abbr>


Semantically, if you are declaring and end-time, then you should say
what it is an end too.

Option 3: Declare start and end times for ALL of daylight savings
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-??-??T02:00:01">Start Daylight Saving</abbr>
<abbr class="dtend" title="2006-10-29T03:00:00">End Daylight Savings</abbr>

-brian

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brian suda
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