[Design] Proposals: support AM/PM guessing if the user enters a time without it?

[Bryan Stearns]

Thanks, Dennis - I'll be sure to include this proposal when I call for 
voting soon.

I don't know what version of Chandler you're using, though - if you've 
tried one of the versions more recent than our official 0.6 builds (that 
is, one of the weekly milestones or something direct from our Subversion 
tree), you might look for the autocompletion popup I added to the time 
fields: as you type in it, it gives you choices to complete the time:
- If you've entered one or two digits, less than 13 -- for example, "10" 
-- you get AM & PM choices: "10:00 AM", "10:00 PM".
- If you've entered two digits, 13 or more -- eg, "19" -- you just get 
the PM choice: "7:00 PM".
- (This assumes you're using a system locale that normally uses AM/PM in 
its time displays; 24-hour time locales just complete on the hour value 
you'd typed -- "10:00" and "19:00" in the above two examples).

...Bryan

Dennis Lynch wrote:

>Proposal #4:
>when the user enter 5:30 (or similar), right away popup a small
>decision box showing 5:30am and 5:30pm on separate lines.  Then the
>user can choose.  To me that's the way Web2.0 would work.  The box
>should appear virtaully adjacent to the 5:30, but should be clearly
>looking for a decision.  The am should be highlighted, and the user
>could select am by typing "a", or <tab> or <enter> or <space> or
><arrowright> or <pageup>.  There may be other logical ways to select
>it.  To select the pm the user could type "p", or or <pagedown> or
><arrowdown><tab> or <arrowdown><enter> or <arrowdown><space>, or
><arrowup><tab> or <arrowup><enter> or <arrowup><space>... or maybe
><arrowdown> would be sufficient??
>
>Dennis Lynch
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