Calendar in Vista

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GregL

If I want to put an all-day event in a calendar, why does it indicate it is
one day longer.
For example if something lasts only one day on 30.01.2007 when I make it
all-day event
it changes in a way that it is from 30.01.2007 till 31.01.2007.
If something lasts 5 day from Monday till Friday I have to change it to
Saturday in order to see it as 5-day event?
Otherwise it can be seen only as 4-day event

Is it right or I am doing something wrong?
I've always used MS Outlook and there was no such problem at all.
 
I think you may be seeing the "Midnight Effect".
"All day" Monday lasts unTIL Tuesday begins.
Monday unTIL Friday does not *include* the full day of Friday.
If you mean to input Monday *through* Friday, that goes Monday unTIL
Saturday.
But that's just my opinion...I could be wrong.
 
Uzytkownik "Max said:
I think you may be seeing the "Midnight Effect".
"All day" Monday lasts unTIL Tuesday begins.
Monday unTIL Friday does not *include* the full day of Friday.
If you mean to input Monday *through* Friday, that goes Monday unTIL
Saturday.
But that's just my opinion...I could be wrong.

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Ok I understand, but MS Outlook doesn't work that way, neither does Sunbird
or other PIM.
It's a little confusing. So the question still remains is it right or wrong?

I am glad calendar has been included in this operating system,
but I am not sure whether the way of presentation all-day events is right.

Another problem when something happens once in a week for a couple of
months. Let's call it a "meeting". You create the first event and make it
occur once a week for 4 months. When you search for everything that includes
word "meeting" in calendar it shows only the first event and you receive no
information on how many times this event have occured (it should be 16)
 
Right/wrong, good/bad, better/worse....all a matter of opinion.
"Different" might be the best term.
That being said, I highly doubt that Windows Calendar was designed or
intended to compete with or replace the likes of Outlook, ACT, Sunbird, or
any of another thousand 'full featured' PIMs.
Just as Notepad does not compete, for word processing, with much at all.
Calendar is newly there, some will find it useful, others will snort and
install something else.

Will Windows Calendar eventually evolve and connect with Other Things Yet To
Come?
Perhaps.
 
That being said, I highly doubt that Windows Calendar was designed or
intended to compete with or replace the likes of Outlook, ACT, Sunbird, or
any of another thousand 'full featured' PIMs.
Just as Notepad does not compete, for word processing, with much at all.
Calendar is newly there, some will find it useful, others will snort and
install something else.
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That's the point. If it was not designed to compete with others, it was made
for what? So why was it implemented after all? I can't agree with you. I
just needed something built-in and as simple as possible and obviously I got
it.
Doesn't meet my expectation?. I don't think so.. It does....as long as the
basic rules are the same
Will Windows Calendar eventually evolve and connect with Other Things Yet
To Come?
Perhaps.
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It should, I like the simplicity of it but I still don't know whether it was
intended or it's just another mistake... a stupid mistake I might add.
Have you ever found any other PIM that treats allday events in the same way?
If there is any I can agree with you and that gives me reason to use the
other one.

Greg
 
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