[Cialug] Plain english for Exchange Calender

[David W. Body]

This looks like an iCalendar document (unrelated to Apple).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:54 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> 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
> > >
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