Yes, I filled in the start date.
Question regarding your comment:
FYI: Just a heads up that the iCal Importer currently imports recurring events (i.e. a series of events) as individual events (i.e. not connected in a series).
If I had a weekly recurring event that’s supposed to recur for one year. Does it load 52 events treated as individual events, or are you saying that it will only load the one event and I’ll have to enter it in 51 more times?