[ciapug] calendars

[Tony Bibbs]

If no day-time is given, I think it is safe to assume it is all day. 
However, a flag meaning as much would work fine.

--Tony

Scott Phillips wrote:
> Good points.  I'm going to complicate matters slightly.
> 
> I'd like the date to be required but start/end times optional.  How 
> should I keep track of whether this is an all-day event (no specific 
> time) or meeting with time specified.  Perhaps an all-day-flag field?
> 
> Trivial questions?  Probably.  But I like to hear how others approach 
> things and this list has been real quiet lately!
> 
> 
> At 01:42 PM 5/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> <snip>
>> 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.
>> </snip>
>>
>> Depends on how you store you date/time fields. I think using native 
>> DBMS date/time data types are worthless and, instead, we opt to use 
>> unix timestamps, when possible (since the timestamp can't work well 
>> before 1970 or whatever it is)
>>
>> --Tony
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