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

["Robert Stepanek" <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019, at 5:16 AM, Neil Jenkins wrote:
> 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 also wouldn't set a timezone on my birthday, but there's been a number of people at last CalConnect reporting that this actually is what users do. I don't have a good answer how to render that if the event timezone and UI timezone don't match - probably a calendaring UI should just ignore the "isAllDay" property if the timezones of the UI and event don't match.

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

That's fine for me as well. I chose "isAllDay" rather than "showAsAllDay", because I figured that "show" implies a graphical user interface, which might not be adequate in all cases (think: calendar applications for visual impaired). But I'm not too vested in it.

> I also agree we want this for JSTask. 

Yeah, there's several people now asking for it, so I guess I shouldn't have removed it in the first place. But it's great we got that established :)