I have been unsuccessful in formulating a RRULE that would allow an event as shown below:
Repeats YEARLY, from first Sunday of April to last day of May, occuring on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, until forever.
FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=SU (gives me the first Sunday of April repeating yearly)
and
FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=5;BYMONTHDAY=-1 (gives me the last day of May repeating yearly)
But I can't figure out how to have the event repeat yearly between those dates for Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Suggestions?
Update: Comments don't have enough space to respond to Chris' answer, so I am editing the question with further information.
Unfortunately, no. I don't know if it is the DDay.iCal library I'm using, or what, but that doesn't work either. I've found that the date start can't be an ordinal date (first Sunday, etc.)..it has to be a specific date, which makes it difficult for my requirements. Even using multiple RRULE's it doesn't seem to work:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//DDay.iCal//NONSGML ddaysoftware.com//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20090717T033307Z
DTSTAMP:20090717T033307Z
DTSTART:20090101T000000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=SU;BYDAY=MO,WE,FR;BYMONTH=4,5
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=SU;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;WKST=SU;BYMONTH=5;BYMONTHDAY=-1
SEQUENCE:0
UID:352ed9d4-04d0-4f06-a094-fab7165e5c74
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
That looks right on the face (I'm even starting the event on 1/1/2009), but when I start testing whether certain days are valid, I get incorrect results.
For example,
4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM = True // Should be False
4/6/2009 12:00:00 AM = True
4/7/2009 12:00:00 AM = False
4/8/2009 12:00:00 AM = True
5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM = True
5/2/2009 12:00:00 AM = False
5/29/2009 12:00:00 AM = True
5/31/2009 12:00:00 AM = True // Should be False
6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM = False
I'm using Douglas Day's DDay.iCal software, but I don't think it is a bug in that library. I think this might be a limitation in iCalendar (RFC 2445).
Thoughts?
