What's the best way to model recurring events in a calendar application?

Question

I\'m building a group calendar application that needs to support recurring events, but all the solutions I\'ve come up with to handle these events seem like a hack. I can li

Answer 1

You could store the events as repeating, and if a particular instance was edited, create a new event with the same event ID. Then when looking up the event, search for all events with the same event ID to get all the information. I'm not sure if you rolled your own event library, or if you're using an existing one so it may not be possible.