[ciapug] calendars

[Tony Bibbs]

Depends on your business requirements.

Frankly, I'm a fan of storing the start and end dates because most 
calendar related use cases need to know the end date.  In the off chance 
you need the duration I think you are best to calculate it.  However if 
you have some uses cases where you need duration you may consider using 
that.  However, it is worth noting that a two day event running from 
8am-4pm would give the duration method a bit of a fit.  Whereas if you 
calculate the duration it can handle that scenario.

--Tony



Scott Phillips wrote:
> Last night we talked about online calendars.  Looking for opinions...
> 
> Do you think it's better to store both the start and end times or simply 
> the start time and duration?  (I assume the first, but just found a 
> couple examples of people doing the latter.)
> 
> 
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> Scott Phillips
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