AppleScript for recurring events in Outlook calendar

I'm trying to write an AppleScript that will create a new appointment with properties that are derived from the properties of a specific appointment that is part of a recurring series in an Outlook calendar.
Outlook 14.2.5
AppleScript Editor version 2.3
In the Microsoft Outlook window in the editor, the calendar event help information shows two distinct properties:
is recurring (boolean, r/o): Indicates whehter an event is part of a recurring series of events. (the typo in "whehter" is actually in the help information!)
is occurrence (boolean, r/o) : Indicates whether an event is an occurrence of a recurring series
I don't understand the difference between these two. If I have a series of appointment (say one meeting every day for three days), and I have selected the second appointment in that series, "is occurrence" is false, but "is recurring" is true. What is the difference?
My ultimate objective is to extract the start time of the specific appointment that is selected, but when I use the "start time" property of the selection (the second appointment in the series of three appointments), my script is returning the start date/time of the first appointment in the series.
set selectedEvent to selection
set startTime to start time of selectedEvent <-- this is returning the start time of the first appointment in the series - not the start time of the particular occurrence that is selected in the calendar (which is what I actually want)
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