[chandler-users] Display of calender dates

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Stuart,

The thinking behind displaying custom alarm dates in the List View is  
that generally speaking, they represent the next important date for  
that event: e.g. I'm attending a wedding in August, but I set a  
Custom Alarm set for when I need to RSVP for the wedding (June 10th).  
So the wedding event represents 2 things to me:

1. Task to RSVP to wedding
2. Wedding event on my calendar

And the next important thing to worry about is the RSVP date.

In my mind, this is different from alarms that are set for say 15  
minutes before an event. Those aren't displayed in the List View  
because they're simply a way to remind you of when the event starts.

That being said, we would like to support the ability to change (on- 
the-fly) what attribute is displayed in the Who and Date columns:  
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10931

Can I ask what you set Custom Alarm dates for?

(More in-line below...)

Mimi

On Apr 17, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Stuart Skinner Jr wrote:

> Can you tell me why Chandler v0.7.5 shows the alarm date/time in  
> the All or Dashboard view rather than the actual time of the  
> appointment?  I know the appt time appears in the detail view, but  
> the alarm icon will appear, making you aware that you will be  
> alerted at some earlier point, but why show the literal alarm time?  
> I suppose occasionally that might be useful, but not often..and  
> often might be mistaken for the appt time!
>
> I tend to write my dates in military format ( dd mm yy). Chandler  
> doesn’t seem to handle that now. Is it likely to in the future, or  
> is it a case of one-too-many formats to handle?
>
We don't currently have plans to support this, but it's certainly a  
candidate for a user preference. Thanks for sending in the request.  
I've opened a request to track user preferences: https:// 
bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12021
>  Thanks,
>
>
>
> Stuart
>
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