calendardatestxt

Calendardatestxt refers to a plain text data format used to store calendar date and event information for software testing and demonstration, often as a placeholder name in documentation and sample datasets. It is not a formal standard and there is no single official specification; multiple projects may produce their own variants.

In typical implementations, calendardatestxt represents records on lines, with fields describing a date or timestamp, an optional time, a time zone, and event metadata such as a title and description. Common field separators include semicolons, pipes, or tabs. Fields may include: date (YYYY-MM-DD), time (HH:MM:SS), timezone or offset, an all-day flag, title, and optional notes. Times may be written in ISO 8601 or in local time with a designated zone.

Example lines: 2024-02-29T12:00:00Z; Team meeting; room 2; all-day=false; id=ev1. 2024-11-01; Halloween event; all-day=true; id=ev2.

Usage and tools: used to test parsers, calendar UI, import/export, timezone handling, and recurrence logic; easy to generate programmatically in any language; widely portable because it's plain text.

Because calendardatestxt is informal and not governed by a single schema, it may vary between projects. It is often used to illustrate data structures or to seed test environments but is not meant as a universal interchange format.