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Make parser more lenient for date-time values (invalid date-time value: "2015-08-12T::")

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I get the Error Uncaught Error: invalid date-time value: “2015-08-12T::”

error

in line

if(iCalEvent.startDate)

the ical file:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:45574333
SUMMARY:ERANOS-Ensemble für Alte Musik - Arbeitswoche
DESCRIPTION:Ltg.: Prof. Frank Löhr Anmeldung für interessierte Zuhörer unter: info@musikfreunde.org 

(Veranstalter: Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Marienmünster)
LOCATION:Marienmünster
CLASS:PUBLIC
DTSTART:20150812
DTEND:20150814
DTSTAMP:20150813T131400Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Outlook read this file as an all day event from 12.08.2015 to 14.08.2015.

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Created 8 years ago
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Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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fbackercommented, Apr 5, 2016

change in ical.js line 5587

if (aValue.length < 19) {
    if(aValue.length == 13){ // No time "2017-01-01T::"
        var time = new ICAL.Time({
            year: ICAL.helpers.strictParseInt(aValue.substr(0, 4)),
            month: ICAL.helpers.strictParseInt(aValue.substr(5, 2)),
            day: ICAL.helpers.strictParseInt(aValue.substr(8, 2)),
            hour: 0,
            minute: 0,
            second: 0,
            timezone: "Z"
        });
        return time;
    }
  throw new Error(
    'invalid date-time value: "' + aValue + '"'
  );
}

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kewischcommented, Oct 23, 2019

I’m working on a new patch that will make DATE, DATE-TIME, and PERIOD values more lenient when setting a specific flag for the parser. I’m pretty far through, just need to do some clean up, make sure I’m happy with the level of leniency, and check if there are other properties that might need similar treatment.

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