Set default start time for events (or make them "all day" by default)
Categories
(Calendar :: Preferences, enhancement)
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(Reporter: brett, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/116.0.1938.62
Steps to reproduce:
Schedule an event (e.g. by double-clicking a day on the monthly or multi-week calendar).
Actual results:
It fills in a default start time that seems to be based on the current time, which typically has no relationship to the actual new event being scheduled. The time setting is easily overlooked, so I end up with events being scheduled with an incorrect start time.
Expected results:
The start-time behavior should be based on a user preference, or the default could simply be "all day" to prevent accidentally scheduling an incorrect time.
The calendar settings should include an option to configure events to be "all day" by default, or to set a default start time for events.
Currently there is an option to set "Default Event and Task Length" (as a number of minutes) but this doesn't allow for a meaningful start time.
My personal preference is for events to be "all day" by default. It's very important to include "all day" as a possible default option.
Related bugs and posts:
191824 Allow All Day for Default Event Length (supposedly resolved in 2003)
304919 Default start/end times for tasks and events
312073 Need default options for new events
871173 Events should NOT have a default start/end time
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1264757 setting the default calendar event in thunderbird v. 60.8.0 to be an all day event
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1289234 How to configure all-day events as the default?
See related post on Connect: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/make-calendar-events-all-day-by-default-and-or-provide-start/idi-p/46086
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