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android: EXDATE format when adding a calendar event

Can someone explain how to use EXDATE when adding event to android calendar? The documentation is pretty unclear about the format in which the EXDATE should be put. I tried many formats, these are some of them:

values.put(Events.EXDATE, "TZID=Europe/London:20130116T080000");
values.put(Events.EXDATE, "20130116T080000Z");
values.put(Events.EXDATE, "20130116T080000");
values.put(Events.EXDATE, "20130116");

but none of them works. Any idea how to make an event not appear on a particular date, if by the RRULE it should appear?

Solution

  • The correct format is:

    values.put(Events.EXDATE, "20130116T080000Z");

    However you must ensure that it is in UTC time. I was having the same problem starting from PST, so I just had to add 8 hours to get it to work.