Interdependent Web

session details: Making Dates and Calendars Rock!

Karen Stevenson, maintainer of Date and Calendar modules

using demo module to demonstrate, organic groups

• Date Tools admin screen (under Content) allows you to set up a bunch of features at once that used to be scattered
• creates a content type, field, and View (with page & block displays) automatically!
• default values for From & To dates can be specified relative to current time or each other
• site-wide custom formats for date display
• default display of calendar is determined by granularity setting
• year range is important to keep bots from going through your calendar forever -- can be absolute or relative
• multiple date fields can be shown on the same calendar, using colors to distinguish
• tons of localization improvements