Re: [Reefknot-users] dtend and duration

[srl <sla...@cs...>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Mark Cheverton wrote:

> 	If a VEVENT is specified by a duration then ->dtend doesn't work and
> vice versa. It would be nice if these were set properly. I know methods
> can't be attached because of the use of MethodMapper and would confuse
> the writing out of an event if both are defined, but it would be very
> useful to not have to program checks into your code.

I think this is more related to the fact that DTEND and DURATION
need to be treated differently at times. Say you've got a lunch
planned from noon to 1pm (DTEND). If you're running 30 minutes late, 
maybe your calendar system will shorten your lunch so that it's from
12:30-1. 

DURATION is different--- it's for events that take a fixed amount
of time, for example, airplane flights. If the takeoff of your
flight gets pushed back 30 minutes, but it has a DURATION of 2
hours, the calendar system should use that DURATION and not merely
adjust the start/end time of the event. 

Yes, this is more a semantic issue than a functional one--- I think
it's intentional that you can't use both at the same time. If you'd
like to contribute some conversion code, that might be good. 

Also, I suspect that posting questions like this to reefknot-devel
might result in faster responses, since more of the developers read
it than read reefknot-users. 

srl
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