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

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