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toad_DMC: You can do some monthly events

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Contributed by: Saturday, April 24 2004 @ 04:53 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

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but not (yet) of the kind to which you refer. Streamers listens to iCal to get the recording schedule. So you can set up your recording as, say a weekly recording, and then go to iCal and change it to a monthly recording. Streamers understands monthly recordings but only of the following type: Record on the 12th of every month. It cannot yet properly interpret: Record on the 1st tuesday of every month. The cleancalendar() routine in Streamers needs to be modified to interpret such events. (The chief difficulty is that for recurring events, iCal only stores, as it should, the first day of the event. The others are computed based on the recurrence rule. Streamers, every time it is launched or finishes a recording, cleans up the calendar to move recurring events into the future - so that the first date of a recurring event is always the next one.)
This site: http://www.kanzaki.com/docs/ical/rrule.html contains a good summary of the recurrence rules, some of which iCal uses. Streamers needs to be able to interpret the BYDAY= rule when the frequency is monthly.   

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