Adding all day events using applescript to ical

Hey all. I am new to using applescript. Thanks to some top users i have been able to get excel events file transfered into ical.
I need help with the applescript for changing these events from time duration to all day.
tried
set the start time to 00:00 and end time to 24:00 and
set all-day to true
any help would be greatly appreciated!!
thanks.

I have the exact same problem. I have entered birthdays for people I know starting with the year of their birth and never ending, an all-day event. They now don't show in 2007, but there is a detached event on January 1, 2000. When I delete that event and all subsequent versions of it, the initial event now ends in 2006 or 2007, and I have to set the repeat to end Never again. I fixed all the ones from February that showed up. Now I notice that a huge amount of the other birthdays (all day events) that I have entered are doing it now, and we are talking well over 40 of them. I don't understand why it keeps creating these detached events. I also publish my calendars, if that makes any difference.

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