[ciapug] calendars

Tony Bibbs ciapug@cialug.org
Thu, 05 May 2005 13:37:07 -0500


Again, what if the event is a two day event running from 8am-4pm?  I 
would expect duration to be 16 hours, not 32 hours.  Of course this 
depends on how you define duration, I suppose.

--Tony

Bryan Baker wrote:
> I would say start & duration, since you can always calculate end time 
> from the other 2 and it's easier to do offsets than diffs between times.
> 
> On May 5, 2005, at 11:32 AM, 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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