Re: [calsify] JSCalendar: alternative to current all-day events

["Neil Jenkins" <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019, at 01:56, Robert Stepanek wrote:
> Calendar users want to set their calendar on their birthday, when they only would like to set it for the complete day in their usual time zone. They still want it to show up as an all-day event in their UI.

Suppose I have such an event (24h long, starts at midnight on 1st Jan 2020 in Australia/Melbourne). It is unclear to me what I should show the user if their time zone is different (e.g. I view the calendar in Europe/London); does it show up in the "all day" section on both 31st Dec and 1st Jan? That's the only sensible thing I can come up with. But that would give the impression the event happens over two days, which is incorrect. (But perhaps the issue here is really more that the birthday should not have been given a time zone.)

I agree the name could perhaps be better. `showWithoutTime` perhaps? And a description something like:

*Indicates the time is not important to display to the user when rendering this event, for example an event that conceptually occurs all day or across multiple days, such as "New Year's Day" or "Italy Vacation". While the time component is important for free-busy calculations and checking for scheduling clashes, calendars may choose to omit displaying it and/or display the event separately to other events to enhance the user's view of their schedule.*

I also agree we want this for JSTask. For example you might set a *due* of `2019-06-30T23:59:59` , i.e. the task deadline is by the end of 30 June. Most UIs would probably just want to show *Due: 30 June*, but it would make sense to have this explicitly stated on the JSTask object so you could signal when the time truly was important.

Neil.