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Multi-day events have distinct mention on every day
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If one adds an event, with a start date and an end date filled in, every day in between has an entry listed, each day mentioning the original "start time". (I assume that this is not the intended behaviour. Or that perhaps the meaning of "start date", "end date", and "start time" aren't as clear as they should be.)

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Hi!

Actually that's a feature but... please help me imagining a better behavior!

So, let's examine two models of "multi-day" occurrences:

  • An organized "series" of events, with something at a particular time every day, for a certain duration.
  • A single occurrence which lasts for the entire span of time.

For the former, "start time" and "end time" refer to the day-by-day individual things, while for the latter, the start time is irrelevant on any day after the first. In such cases, I think display would vary depending on style, but the options are basically to have the intervening days have a small "X continues" without a time listed, or to just leave it out and only show the event for the start and end dates.

For series, I am unsure.

Can you imagine a nice flag name (e.g. show multiple days = no ) to be added into the single Event, to activate this desired behavior?

Thanks again