[uf-discuss] hResume - Marking up experience and "present" date

[Ryan King]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:29 AM, Ciaran McNulty wrote:
> In iCal (and therefore presumably hCal), the following rule applies
> for events that lack a DTEND or DURATION:
>
> "For
>   cases where a "VEVENT" calendar component specifies a "DTSTART"
>   property with a DATE data type but no "DTEND" property, the events
>   non-inclusive end is the end of the calendar date specified by the
>   "DTSTART" property. For cases where a "VEVENT" calendar component
>   specifies a "DTSTART" property with a DATE-TIME data type but no
>   "DTEND" property, the event ends on the same calendar date and time
>   of day specified by the "DTSTART" property."
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt
>
> Therefore your markup would therefore have an implicit DTEND at the
> end of 15th Dec 2005, by my reading of the spec.
>
> Unfortunately I don't think ISO8061 has a way of representing 'now' -
> the only thing I could suggest would be that you set it equal to the
> document's publication date, maybe using PHP as you suggest.


Ugg, that's annoying. I think I actually missed this when writing  
hResume. I wrongly assumed that VEVENTS with no DTEND were ongoing.

For the sake of publishers, it might be useful to find a way for  
people to say 'now' or 'present' in hCalendar.

-ryan