Re: [NTLK] A better Dates package? Issue #2

From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 00:05:12 PDT


Il me semble que le 6/09/03 à 23:06 -0700, Paul Miller nous racontait:
>So what about those of us that have a "graveyard"
>schdule and don't want to enter two meetings
>(consecutive days) to cover the midnight-cross-over
>problem?

This isn't possible with built-in dates because it wasn't forseen. A
meeting is recorded in the Newton with a start time and a duration.
However, when the system looks for meetings to show you what is on a
given day, it looks for all meetings that start this day. It doesn't
look for all meetings that start before this day and could continue
this day because they're long enough. The code is much more complex
and either they didn't realize it could happen or they chose to not
make it happen since the GUI would also be more complex (where should
the title of the meeting appear? How could you know how long the
meeting last?)

The only thing you might be able to do is a script or something to
create two meetings at once instead of creating two manually.

Paul

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