Roatin Marth
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Roatin Marth
asked on 06 Sep 2011, 04:15 PM
Just wanted to have a discussion on the formats of the exception rule dates.
Just had a discussion about the meaning of the Z character when used within a time stamp.
The literal "Z" is actually part of the ISO 8601 datetime standard for UTC times. When "Z" (Zulu) is tacked on the end of a time, it indicates that that time is UTC.
The dates in the exception rule section of the recurrence rule string seem to always contain the Z character indication that the time stamp is in UTC, which I`m seeing is not always accurate. I find that the date time in the exception rule is actually stored in the time zone of the machine that saved the appointment.
Can anyone at telerik comment on this at all?
Would you say that is correct from your perspective? Was this intentional?
regards,
Just had a discussion about the meaning of the Z character when used within a time stamp.
The literal "Z" is actually part of the ISO 8601 datetime standard for UTC times. When "Z" (Zulu) is tacked on the end of a time, it indicates that that time is UTC.
The dates in the exception rule section of the recurrence rule string seem to always contain the Z character indication that the time stamp is in UTC, which I`m seeing is not always accurate. I find that the date time in the exception rule is actually stored in the time zone of the machine that saved the appointment.
Can anyone at telerik comment on this at all?
Would you say that is correct from your perspective? Was this intentional?
regards,
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Hello Roatin,
The recurrence rule is made according to the ICalender format, so that the .iso file can be used in other calendars as well. All the calendars that use this format are writing the exceptions in this way and usually the offset is set separately as described in this help article.
Regards,
Plamen Zdravkov
the Telerik team
The recurrence rule is made according to the ICalender format, so that the .iso file can be used in other calendars as well. All the calendars that use this format are writing the exceptions in this way and usually the offset is set separately as described in this help article.
Regards,
Plamen Zdravkov
the Telerik team
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