iCalendar
Sign in to saveThe Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) is a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, and together with its associated standards has been a cornerstone of the standardization and interoperability of digital calendars across different vendors. Files formatted according to the specification usually have an extension of . With supporting software, such as an email reader or calendar application, recipients of an iCalendar data file can respond
Key facts
- File format.extension
- .ical, .ics, .ifb, .icalendar
- File format.mime
- text/calendar
- File format.genre
- Calendar data exchange
- File format.standard
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- File format.open
- Yes
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The Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) is a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, and together with its associated standards has been a cornerstone of the standardization and interoperability of digital calendars across different vendors. Files formatted according to the specification usually have an extension of . With supporting software, such as an email reader or calendar application, recipients of an iCalendar data file can respond to the sender easily or counter-propose another meeting date/time. The file format is specified in a proposed Internet standard (RFC 5545) for calendar data exchange. The standard and file type are sometimes referred to as "iCal", which was the name of the Apple Inc. calendar program until 2012 (see iCal), which provides one of the implementations of the standard.
iCalendar is used and supported by many products, including: general consumer: Apple Calendar (formerly iCal), eM Client, Google Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar corporate: HCL Domino (formerly IBM Notes and Lotus Notes) free software: GNOME Evolution, GNU Emacs, Mozilla Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey It is partially supported by Microsoft Outlook and Novell GroupWise.