Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] Recurrence COUNT

[Chad <ch...@ch...>]

It's a known bug in iCal. Note that .Mac will display the event the 
same way as PHP iCalendar, so I'm not really interested in providing a 
work-around for this.

-C

On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 11:22  AM, a.h.s. boy wrote:

> I just sent a note off to Apple's iCal feedback about the following, 
> but I don't know if you've discussed this during phpiCalendar 
> development.
>
> The COUNT parameter of the recurrence rule is, according to RFC 2445, 
> supposed to indicate the total number of events, including the parent 
> event. Apple's iCal appears to misinterpret the rule, and uses COUNT 
> to indicate the number of _child_ recurrences, excluding the original.
>
> If you create a repeating event in iCal, and specify that it repeats 
> daily "For 3 times", iCal produces a total of 4 events.
>
> phpiCalendar parses the recurrence rule and creates only 3 events. 
> While this is, in my opinion, the
> proper interpretation, it does create a discrepancy between one's 
> calendar in iCal, and the phpiCalendar version...which might confuse 
> people.
>
> Cheers,
> spud.
>
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