4.8.2.2 Date/Time End
Basic Definition | Description| | Example
Basic Definition
- Property Name
- DTEND
- Purpose
- This property specifies the date and time that a calendar component ends.
- Value Type
- The default value type is DATE-TIME. The value type can be set to a DATE value type.
- Property Parameters
- Non-standard, value data type, time zone identifier property parameters can be specified on this property.
- Conformance
- This property can be specified in "VEVENT" or "VFREEBUSY" calendar components.
Description
Within the "VEVENT" calendar component, this property defines the date and time by which the event ends. The value MUST be later in time than the value of the "DTSTART" property.
Within the "VFREEBUSY" calendar component, this property defines the end date and time for the free or busy time information. The time MUST be specified in the UTC time format. The value MUST be later in time than the value of the "DTSTART" property.
Format Definition
The property is defined by the following notation:
dtend = "DTEND" dtendparam":" dtendval CRLF
dtendparam = *(
; the following are optional,
; but MUST NOT occur more than once
(";" "VALUE" "=" ("DATE-TIME" / "DATE")) /
(";" tzidparam) /
; the following is optional,
; and MAY occur more than once
(";" xparam)
)
dtendval = date-time / date
;Value MUST match value type
Example
The following is an example of this property: DTEND:19960401T235959Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19980704