ISO 8601 Repeating Interval
Wikipedia gives an exa开发者_开发技巧mple of an ISO 8601 example of a repeating interval:
R5/2008-03-01T13:00:00Z/P1Y2M10DT2H30M
This is what this means:
R5
means that the interval after the slash is repeated 5 times.2008-03-01T13:00:00Z
means that the interval begins at this given datetime.P1Y2M10DT2H30M
means that the interval lasts for- 1 year
- 2 months
- 10 days
- 2 hours
- 30 minutes
My problem is that I do not know exactly what is being repeated here. Does the repetition occur immediately after the interval ends? Can I specify that every Monday something happens from 13:00 to 14:00?
The standard itself doesn't clarify, but the only obvious interpretation here is that the interval repeats back-to-back. So this recurring interval:
R2/2008-03-01T13:00:00Z/P1Y2M10DT2H30M
Will be equivalent to these non-recurring intervals:
2008-03-01T13:00:00Z/P1Y2M10DT2H30M
2009-05-01T15:30:00Z/P1Y2M10DT2H30M
(Note: my reading is that the number of repetitions does include the first occurrence)
There is no way to represent "every Monday from 13:00 to 14:00" inside of ISO 8601, but it's natural to do for a VEVENT in the iCalendar format. (If you could do that entirely within ISO 8601, then that would give rise to a slew of further feature requests)
Yes, ISO8601 does define a regular repeating interval (or as regular as a "month" can be as one of the units).
R5/2008-03-01T13:00:00Z/P1Y2M10DT2H30M
Should generate these times:
2009-05-11T15:30:00Z
2010-07-21T18:00:00Z
2011-10-01T20:30:00Z
2012-12-11T23:00:00Z
2014-02-22T00:30:00Z
It doesn't define a "start time" and "end time" like RFC5545 (iCalendar) does, or even irregular repetition like RRULE or crontab can.
You should be able to specify a weekly repetition using the ISO Week Date as a starting point, but you'll need separate repetitions for "start" and "end" times:
R/2021-W01-1T13:00:00Z/P1W
R/2021-W01-1T14:00:00Z/P1W
The first interval is for the start times: Mondays at 13:00 (starting in 2021), and the second is for the end times: Mondays at 14:00 (starting in 2021).
I'm probably being an idiot (Long Covid Brain) but isn't the obvious extension to ISO-8601 a second duration part? In the absence of the second duration, the repeats are back to back, in its presence what is actually repeating is a smaller duration event at the start of each period. e.g.
R/2021-W01-1T13:00:00Z/P1W/P1H
- indefinite weekly repeat of hour long slots every Monday 1pm starting week 1 2021.
EDIT: Maybe you could even nest them ...
R/2021-W01-1T09:00:00Z/P1W/R5/P1D/P8H
- Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm, every week? Ok I'll get my coat
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