A.6.2. Do All Day Events have a duration?

The biggest issue with day events has always been do they have duration and how should they be presented using iCalendar? iCalendar certainly is robust enough to support the concept but it does not explicitly dictate how to represent a day event.

Christmas is the 25^th of December regardless of were you are in the world. It can be represented as an all day event on the 25^th. If a user is attending a conference in Hong Kong from Monday to Friday then for the user’s boss in North America the user is actually starting to attend some time on Sunday. Which is right?

The reality is that some systems support one way or the other or in some cases both then add into the mix a mobile device that itself does its own thing and you have a dreadful mess.

BOF Topic: What form of iCALENDAR should be passed back and forth to ensure these concepts are correctly handled?