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Generated ical series not accounting for public and univiersity holidays #344
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Thanks for the work done closing #63 in #343, I just tried out the new changes and it looks like it largely works!
I did notice that, because the first week of class starts with MLK day, it is causing all of my MWF classes to not generate until the next week
Additionally, it seems to be generating events through RIT's Spring break
since RIT's institute calendar also includes the public holidays that we have no class, this may be relatively easy to implement:
- scrape, or get ITS to add an iCal version of the data from https://www.rit.edu/calendar
- add some code to filter days off out from other institute events things (such as the last day of the add/drop period) and convert to DateTime format
- follow the linked specs to include them as exception dates in each VEVENT declaration https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-8-5-1-exception-date-times.html (thanks @natep-tech for the link)
Unless RIT can maintain the list of days off (which IMO it should) this may add some extra maintenance burden to CSH. However some of the open source groups at RIT may also be able to help take this on as well in the meantime.
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MoralCode commentedon Jan 11, 2024
I have filed a ticket with the helpdesk to see if they will add an .ics calendar of university days off to the rit.edu/calendar webpage to make this easier
MoralCode commentedon Jan 11, 2024
It also looks like it might not be too hard to throw together some PHP to scrape the future days calendar table from https://www.rit.edu/calendar/future-chart into some kind of url scheme like
<domain>/universitycalendar/[spring/fall]/[year]/[informational/holidays].icsi might play with making some PHP script for this on my RIT userspace
MoralCode commentedon Jan 20, 2024
I played with this a bit, it seems possible, but its a fair bit of date parsing drudgery.
I dont have time to build this before knowing that it will be useful, so if this is an API that the team wants, you need to let me know otherwise I will assume you've got it covered or dont need it. Happy to share my source code so far if anyone's interested as well, just lmk