iPod Software 2.0 and later supports industry-standard iCalendar and vCalendar files, which can be exported by many applications including Microsoft Entourage, Microsoft Outlook, and Palm Desktop.
vCalendar version 1 (the predecessor to iCalendar) is described in the document "vCalendar The Electronic Calendaring and Scheduling Exchange Format Version 1.0" (
http://www.imc.org/pdi/).
iCalendar 3.0 is described in RFC 2445, "Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)" (
http://www.imc.org/rfc2445).
The following vCalendar 1.0 components/properties are supported by iPod:
- To-do
- Time Zone
- Alarm (as part of an event)
- Event
- Date/Time Completed
- Date/Time End
- Date/Time Due
- Date/Time Start
- Duration
- Time Zone Offset From (+ or - from UTC only)
- Attendee
- Organizer
- Unique Identifier
- Exception Date/Times
- Exception Rule*
- Recurrence Date/Times
- Recurrence Rule*
- Repeat Count
- Trigger
- Display Alarm
- FREQ
* Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly are supported. Secondly, minutely and hourly are not supported.
The following vCalendar 1.0 properties are ignored by iPod, but are preserved if a .vcs file is stored on an iPod and then transferred back to a computer with an application that support them:
- Delegatees
- Format Type
- Language
- Participation Status
- Participation Role
- RSVP Expectation
- Attachment
- Categories
- Classification
- Description
- Geographic Position
- Location
- Resources
- Status
- Summary
- Time Transparency
- Related To
- Uniform Resource Locator
- Mail reminder
- Procedure reminder
- Date/Time Created
- Last Modified