Formatting time for ical export

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Chris Till picture Chris Till · May 9, 2012 · Viewed 12.8k times · Source

I have created a calendar in jquery that exports to ical. However, I am having some issues with the datetime.

The ical export script expects the date/time in this format: 19970714T170000Z.

Does anybody know what this is and how I should prepare my string?

Thanks

Answer

Auberon Vacher picture Auberon Vacher · May 9, 2012

Reading the RFC (link) gives :

3.3.5. Date-Time

[...]

date-time = date "T" time

The "DATE-TIME" value type expresses time values in three forms:

FORM #1: DATE WITH LOCAL TIME For example, the following represents January 18, 1998, at 11 PM: 19980118T230000

FORM #2: DATE WITH UTC TIME CAPITAL LETTER Z suffix character, to the time value.
For example, the following represents January 19, 1998, at 0700 UTC: 19980119T070000Z

FORM #3: DATE WITH LOCAL TIME AND TIME ZONE REFERENCE TZID=America/New_York:19980119T020000

DTSTART:19970714T133000 ; Local time DTSTART:19970714T173000Z ; UTC time DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19970714T133000 ; Local time and time ; zone reference

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