[Cialug] Plain english for Exchange Calender

[L. V. Lammert]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:

> After Googling for "vcalendar dtstart format" and doing a bit of
> reading, i am under the impression that the dates are just ISO-8601
> basic format (aka, no hyphens).
>
IME, that is not true. Every time I have looked at an Exchange invite, the
dates are always too wonky to be believable <g>!

> So that date looks like January 1, 1601 at 02:00 in the morning
> (ignoring the time zone offset for now). That seems like an odd date; is
> 1600 or 1601 the start of the epoch for vcalendar format?
>
Guess that would be a good question, ..

	TFTR!

	Lee

> > BEGIN:VCALENDAR
> > METHOD:REQUEST
> > PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
> > VERSION:2.0
> > BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
> > TZID:Central Standard Time
> > BEGIN:STANDARD
> > DTSTART:16010101T020000
> > TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
> > TZOFFSETTO:-0600
> > RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11
> > END:STANDARD
> > BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
> > DTSTART:16010101T020000
> >