Re: Handling Repeating events from google calendar / repeater interval

[Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>]

Hu Stephen,

Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I'm experimenting using ical2org.sh to import google calendars.  One
> limitation, as noted in the header is:
>
> # - does process RRULE recurring events, but ignores COUNT specifiers
>
> so if you have a repeating event in google (e.g. every day for four
> week), the ics file has:
>
> RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=4
>
> The script will take the first day of the event, but not the remaining
> three days.  I think this could be solved in a couple of ways:
>
> 1. create four events, moving the date by one each time.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm afraid that pure AWK does not provide
date computation support. That's why I did not implement this.
So I would definitely vote to extend the repeater syntax with a count.

>
> 2. extending the syntax of timestamps so that something like:
>
>           * Pick up Sam at school
>             <2007-05-16 Wed 12:30 3+1w>
>
> means repeat this event 3 times (rather than indefinitely).  Or
> "+1w:3"

I assume that your initial example RRULE would require either "...4+1d>"
or "+1d:4"

> or something similar, I don't mind the syntax as long as it doesn't
> break other parts of timestamps.
>
> Has extending the syntax of the repeater interval been considered to
> allow finite number of repeats?  I can offer to code something up for
> consideration if this sounds sensible.

+1


Guido

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