Outlook 2007 improperly interprets local time as UTC

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Brent Paloutzian

The following .ics/.vcs file reverts to UTC instead of "floating" or "local"
time as defined in the iCalendar spec. Adding a "Z" to the end of the
DTSTART line indicates UTC, however the absence of the "Z" is supposed to
indicate local time based on this:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

BEGIN: VCALENDAR
VERSION:1.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
LOCATION:Test
DTSTART:20061017T080000
TRANSP:1
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Test
SUMMARY:Test
PRIORITY:3
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

The time on the above event should be 8:00 AM, regardless of your time
zone/daylight saving time. Outlook 2003 handles this correctly.

Is this a bug or a feature?
 

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