[Design] [Last call] [Bug 6707] Dashboard upcoming days "Monday", not last week?

Priscilla Chung priscilla at osafoundation.org
Wed Sep 27 09:23:16 PDT 2006


I just thought about something to add to the discussion and forgive me 
if I'm stating the obvious. How I think about time depends on the type 
of item I'm looking at.

The problem arises from the Chandler dashboard displaying different 
kinds of past and future items in a common list. To me, e-mails are 
received and viewed as past items ie. this message was sent on 
'Tuesday', last Tuesday. When I think of calendar events, it is 
happening in the future. ie. the meeting is on 'Tuesday', the coming 
Tuesday.

As a result proper nouns days of the week have ambiguous meaning.

Does that make sense?
-Priscilla



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