875586 - Alarm notifications should use a stronger time approximation in the form of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 987427

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Calendar, defect)

Description

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

See related bugs in bug 856881 and bug 875550.

Right now, our alarm notifications in the calendar app appear to do the following calculation to indicate how much time is left before the event happens:

- 4.55 minutes ==> 4 minutes (truncate)
- 1.95 hours ==> 1 hours (truncate)
- etc.

For being off by a minute, this is minor. But the hour, day, and week cases are far worse - truncation causes us to confuse the user into thinking the wrong time by a lot.

What we should do here is give a better approximation of how much time is remaining until the event happens. At one extreme, that would require indicating the following:

- Weeks
- Days
- Hours
- Minutes
- Seconds

This needs UX input though on what the right balance here is.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Need info on UX to determine what the right path forward is here.

Comment 4

[Stephany Wilkes]

UX will address this after completing leo+, tef+ and tracking-b2g18+ bugs, which are the top UX priorities right now.

Comment 5

[Stephany Wilkes]

The spec for this is available at:
https://mozilla.box.com/files/0/f/867803710/1/f_8935133431

Comment 6

[Matthew Vaughan]

This bug also reproduces on the 10/25/13 1.2 build.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Buri v1.2 comRIL
BuildID: 20131025004000
Gaia: 606517ceafe0950c2b89822d5f13353743334f2c
Gecko: 5eabd267ef04
Version: 26.0a2
RIL Version: 01.02.00.019.082

Comment 7

[Vishnu Dangi]

Hi Kevin 
any update about this issue.
when we set remind me is 5 minute before then event start after 4 minute came in notification.it should be 5 minute.

Comment 8

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

Miller - I recall you looking at millisecond calculation for notifications. I couldn't find anything open, if you are doing anything can you update this bug? Thanks!

Comment 9

[Miller Medeiros [:millermedeiros]]

Hi Kevin, it was Bug 987427 (related to notification rounding)

Comment 10

[Kevin Grandon :kgrandon]

I am assuming that the issue is a dupe of bug 987427. Generally I would dupe the other way, but given that the other bug has a patch and people working on it, I think we should dupe this way.

Comment 11

[Miller Medeiros [:millermedeiros]]

I think Dylan had some ideas on what we should do instead. I think he mentioned something about just showing the event date (since we don't update the value after the alarm fires of).