Vpim talk - Apr 2006 - Parsing all day events

Hi!

I just started playing with vpim and I think it''s a great library
(thanks for sharing it with the community).
I have a small problem though  when I parse all day events. I''m not
sure how to differentiate between an event that has a startdate property with a
value of type DATE and one that is a DATETIME. Currently the "dtstart"
method returns a Time object and it''s not clear how to make the
distinction.

So something like this should be an all day event:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;20060101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE;20060102

This is a timed event:
DTSTART:20030915T161500Z
DTEND:20030915T171500Z

For both dtstart returns a Time object. I need to know that I can ignore the
time part from the first case.

Thanks,
Cosmin Andriescu

Quoting cosmin at speakeasy.net, on Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:34:20PM
-0700:
> Hi!
> 
> I just started playing with vpim and I think it''s a great library
(thanks for sharing it with the community).
> I have a small problem though  when I parse all day events. I''m
not sure how to differentiate between an event that has a startdate property
with a value of type DATE and one that is a DATETIME. Currently the
"dtstart" method returns a Time object and it''s not clear how
to make the distinction.
> 
> So something like this should be an all day event:
> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;20060101
> DTEND;VALUE=DATE;20060102
> 
> This is a timed event:
> DTSTART:20030915T161500Z
> DTEND:20030915T171500Z
> 
> For both dtstart returns a Time object. I need to know that I can ignore
the time part from the first case.
I think thats a bug, sorry, I think it should return a Date.

I''ll look at it next week, I''m pretty busy right now.

I''m trying to use the builting Time and Date objects, but they
don''t map
really well to time and date as it is used in iCalendar. Hopefully I can
just make sure the right type is returned, and it won''t break other
things.

Thanks,
Sam

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the reply.
>>  I think thats a bug, sorry, I think it should return a Date.
>>  I''ll look at it next week, I''m pretty busy right
now.
>>  I''m trying to use the builting Time and Date objects, but
they don''t map
>>  really well to time and date as it is used in iCalendar. Hopefully I
can
>>  just make sure the right type is returned, and it won''t break
other
>>  things.
Cool!

Thank you,
Cosmin