Vpim talk - May 2006 - differentiating dates and times in dtstart/dtend?

Hiya!  First off, thanks for the incredible work.

Secondly, is there a way to distinguish between events which are
fundamentally "day" events and those which have a time component?

Looking at a .ics file, the latter looks like this:

DTSTART:20060428T220000Z
DTEND:20060429T040000Z

and date events like this:

DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060427

Looking at the pretty printed output of a decoded event, it looks like
the distinction is being maintained:

   #<Vpim::DirectoryInfo::Field:0x110c4d8
    @group=nil,
    @line="DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060426",
    @name="DTSTART",
    @params={"VALUE"=>["DATE"]},
    @value="20060426">,

But I''m wondering if there is a way to distinguish this without diving
down into the DirectoryInfo layer.  Ideally, I''d like to be able to
query an event directly.

Here''s hoping I haven''t asked a dippy question,
sanjay

-- 
The world tends to work out for me.  I try to give it reason to.

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:12:35AM -0400, Sanjay Vakil
wrote:
> Secondly, is there a way to distinguish between events which are
> fundamentally "day" events and those which have a time component?
I have the changes locally to make dtstart/... return Date or Time,
depending on what the start is. The change breaks other things. :-(
I will try and release this weekend.

And of course its not a dippy question!

Cheers,
Sam