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Property Name

DTEND

Purpose

This property specifies the date and time that a calendar component ends.

Value Type

The default value type is DATE-TIME. The value type can be set to a DATE value type.

Property Parameters

IANA, non-standard, value data type, and time zone identifier property parameters can be specified on this property.

Conformance

This property can be specified in "VEVENT" or "VFREEBUSY" calendar components.

Description

Within the "VEVENT" calendar component, this property defines the date and time by which the event ends. The value type of this property MUST be the same as the "DTSTART" property, and its value MUST be later in time than the value of the "DTSTART" property. Furthermore, this property MUST be specified as a date with local time if and only if the "DTSTART" property is also specified as a date with local time.

Within the "VFREEBUSY" calendar component, this property defines the end date and time for the free or busy time information. The time MUST be specified in the UTC time format. The value MUST be later in time than the value of the "DTSTART" property.

Format Definition

This property is defined by the following notation:

 

 

 

dtend = "DTEND" dtendparam ":" dtendval CRLF

 dtendparam = *(
            ;
            ; The following are OPTIONAL,
            ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
            ;
            (";" "VALUE" "=" ("DATE-TIME" / "DATE")) /
            (";" tzidparam) /
            ;
            ; The following is OPTIONAL,
            ; and MAY occur more than once.
            ;
            (";" other-param)
            ;
            )
 dtendval   = date-time / date
 ;Value MUST match value type

Example

The following is an example of this property

 DTEND:19960401T150000Z
 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19980704

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