On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Martijn van Beers wrote: > gives: > [19700329T020000..19701025T030000], > [19710328T020000..19711031T030000], > [19720326T020000..19721030T030000] > > The format of the time strings and the recurrence rules are defined > in the iCalendar rfc (2445). This was used because the primary use > of Date::Set was going to be Net::ICal. (not that I'm aware of > any other syntaxes to specify recurrences in)
Wouldn't it be better to specify them in something a little more primitive (numbers, not a string)? > So, this sounds like something very high level, which shouldn't > be considered part of the base object. But.. it is needed for > really low-level operations, like ->add(). For example: > > 19700328T233000 + 4 hours = ?? > > You'd think 19700329T033000. And you'd be right most of the time, > but not if that time was a Europe/Amsterdam time. Then, it'd > be 19700329T043000. > > So, I think we need to either put all of this inside the base object, > or make the base object do UTC only. The base object will store UTC only, and then use the timezone objects to do other things. So if we 19700328T233000Z and add 4 hours, we end up with 19700329T033000Z. And if the timezone is Europe/Amsterdam, then when the user asks for ->hour, they get the right answer. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
