Rejecting, since no further feedback. Would still love to do general 
UI work here, but that's outside the scope of this ticket.

I don't think there's need for any non-UI code here. On the UI side, I 
could see a bunch of reorganization being possible. For one thing, 
does anyone use the All Day option and actually want it to mark the 
whole day as busy?



I think we could have some radio buttons that toggled tabs with the 
appropriate UI elements:



- Untimed Event (just shows start date, no time)

- Lasts for ... [duration fields show up]

- Ends at [end time fields show up]



Etc. - it'd take some work, but especially for richer clients I think 
we could have a much more intuitive UI here. But all of this is beyond 
the original request, which I think is functionally met now.

I still think this could as easy be done with the all-day event. It 
saves you exactly one click but otherwise works identically and even 
the display in the views is the same, beside that you get "All day" 
instead of "No time" in the tooltip.



I'm inclined to reject it, other opinions?

The FREE state addresses whether or not the event takes up time when 
someone queries your schedule.  However, it still requires that you 
fill in time related elements for an event.  I was looking for a 
toggle, that essentially turns a timed event, into a simple labeled 
occurence.  The event object becomes a very simple entry, with just a 
date and a name, which means that a user doesn't have to be bothered 
with switching the status to Free, and setting the event to all-day.   
On the UI, this would have the effect of adding a No Time option to 
the start time.



My cue for this is a user suggestion, and I believe their cue for it 
is their Palm handheld, which has a No-Time option.

I don't understand why this is different from all-day events, 
especially given your examples and the new "Free" state in HEAD.

If adding an item to a calendar that is really more like an   
occurence, than an event (i.e. putting someone's birthday on a 
calendar, or a holiday), its cumbersome to create the event, and set 
all the dates and times to be identical so it takes up no time on your 
calendar.  It would be helpful to have a toggle between setting up a 
zero-time event (an occurrence) and  a timed event.



Example:  let's say we celebrate April 7 for some reason.  I want to 
make note of that on my calendar, so I add a New Event.  It defaults 
to being a day_start_time start time and a day_start_time + 60 minutes 
end time.  I don't want it showing up on my calendar as a 1 hour event 
(because its an occurence), so I have to change end time to match 
start time.  But it still will show up on my calendar at 6AM (my 
day_start_time value).  I'd like to be able to do a single click 
(Zero-time event checkbox right above the date and time area) and have 
it show up on my calendar, in a way similar to all day events, but 
taking up no time.