Re: Lesson Learned: Day needed for iCalendar export

[Ryan Thompson <rct@thompsonclan.org>]

Without the day, the timestamp is not valid according to Org, so it
just treats it as normal text, or possibly something else entirely.
The real lesson is no to type timestamps manually. Use C-c <period>.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David A. Gershman
<dagershman@dagertech.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I ran into this just now and I don't think it's documented anywhere so
> here is a tidbit thay may prevent some hair loss:
>
> I get a work calendar of my days off work for holidays.  So I collect
> them in my .org file like so:
>
> * Work Holidays
>   <2010-05-31>
>   <2010-07-05>
>   <2010-09-06>
>   <2010-11-25>
>   { there are more }
>
> When exporting my .ics file I found these dates were not showing up, but
> they *were* showing on my .org Agenda view.  Turns out the iCalendar
> export needs the *day* also:
>
> * Work Holidays
>   <2010-05-31 Mon>
>   <2010-07-05 Mon>
>   <2010-09-06 Mon>
>   <2010-11-25 Thu>
>
> .ics export worked great after that.  Enjoy!
>
> ----------------------------------------
> David A. Gershman
> gershman@dagertech.net
> http://dagertech.net/gershman/
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>
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