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5.2.2. CALDAV:calendar-timezone Property

Name

calendar-timezone

Namespace

urn

Purpose

Specifies a time zone on a calendar collection.

Conformance

This property SHOULD be defined on all calendar collections. If defined, it SHOULD NOT be returned by a PROPFIND DAV:allprop request (as defined in Section 12.14.1 of [RFC2518]).

Description

The CALDAV specify the time zone the server should rely on to resolve "date" values and "date with local time" values (i.e., floating time) to "date with UTC time" values. The server will require this information to determine if a calendar component scheduled with "date" values or "date with local time" values overlaps a CALDAV: time-range specified in a CALDAV:calendar-query REPORT. The server will also require this information to compute the proper FREEBUSY time period as "date with UTC time" in the VFREEBUSY component returned in a response to a CALDAV:free-busy-query REPORT request that takes into account calendar components scheduled with "date" values or "date with local time" values. In the absence of this property, the server MAY rely on the time zone of their choice.

Note

The iCalendar data embedded within the CALDAV timezone XML element MUST follow the standard XML character data encoding rules, including use of <, >, & etc. entity encoding or the use of a construct. In the later case, the iCalendar data cannot contain the character sequence "]]>", which is the end delimiter for the CDATA section.

Definition:

   
   PCDATA value: an iCalendar object with exactly one VTIMEZONE
         component.

Example

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:US-Eastern
LAST-MODIFIED:19870101T000000Z
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:19671029T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada)
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:19870405T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada)
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
END:VCALENDAR

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