Data::ical provides an implementation of perl objects that represent a given vcalendar object as defined in the icalendar protocol (rfc 2445, mime type "text/calendar"), as implemented in many popular calendaring programs such as apple's ical.

each data::ical object is a collection of "entries", which are objects of a subclass of data::ical::entry. the types of entries defined by icalendar (which refers to them as "components") include events, to-do items, journal entries, free/busy time indicators and time zone descriptors, but this module currently only implements to-do items and events.