Subject: RFC 2445 Errors

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:30:14 -0500

In the RFC 2445 there are some problems with the examples:  Under 5 iCalendar Object Examples there are lots of problems:

1: The 1st example is incorrectly formatted.  There are no CRLFs at the 
end of the property values...  (Not sure if we caught this already so Im 
including for completeness.)
2: The 2nd example has an embedded vTimeZone and vEvent but no METHOD:
3: The 3rd example has a non-2445 standard METHOD value: METHOD:xyz .  It should be REQUEST or something standard.
4: The vToDo example has no METHOD: property.
5: Neither does the vJournal example that follows it.
6: The vFreeBusy example also lacks METHOD:

Also, the vTimeZone in the 2nd example is a bit odd/misleading:

     BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
     TZID:US-Eastern
     BEGIN:STANDARD
     DTSTART:19981025T020000
     RDATE:19981025T020000
     TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
     TZOFFSETTO:-0500
     TZNAME:EST
     END:STANDARD
     BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
     DTSTART:19990404T020000
     RDATE:19990404T020000
     TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
     TZOFFSETTO:-0400
     TZNAME:EDT
     END:DAYLIGHT
     END:VTIMEZONE

The vDaylight has dates in 1994 but the others are 1998 (including the 
example ones).  The RDATEs should be the following year, not the same one. 
 It would be better if there were RRULEs intstead but thats just a nit 
compared to the rest of it.

Bruce
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