# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1505771713 -7200
# Node ID 5ac57f0173ab148aa97fdd5354ae17fe44394abc
# Parent  65e999dd88f08638eee54d3c6e69954fc1c12630
Expanded docstrings.

diff -r 65e999dd88f0 -r 5ac57f0173ab imiptools/period.py
--- a/imiptools/period.py	Mon Sep 18 23:54:59 2017 +0200
+++ b/imiptools/period.py	Mon Sep 18 23:55:13 2017 +0200
@@ -303,13 +303,19 @@
 
     def get_recurrenceid(self):
 
-        "Return a recurrence identifier to identify this period."
+        """
+        Return a recurrence identifier to identify this period. This identifier
+        employs the UTC time zone to avoid ambiguity.
+        """
 
         return format_datetime(to_utc_datetime(self.get_start()))
 
     def get_recurrenceid_item(self):
 
-        "Return datetime plus attributes for a recurrence identifier."
+        """
+        Return datetime plus attributes for a recurrence identifier. These
+        details can be used to encode the recurrence identifier for output.
+        """
 
         return self.get_start(), get_datetime_attributes(self.get_start())