Context
The current setup doesn't allow setting date only, and takes extra effort to set the time.
Sometimes the deadline is a day, and sometimes I want to set the time.
Using core datetime field, with date and time.
Questions
Would it help to separate the date and time fields?
- Would that cause issues with views?
- Could create a datetime or timestamp value on save.
How about defaulting to 5:00pm? Or 23:59? Or 24:00? or 00:00?
What modules can help with this?
Issues
Support a per-instance "all-day" option for datetime and datetime range fields
View on Drupal.org #3171554Relative dates for fields are not calculated with respect to Drupal::time() Status: Reviewed & tested by the community
Findings
Gpt suggests using 23:59 to represent an end of day deadline.
Users in different timezones could have an issue if the deadline was end of workday. A datetime with 5pm for the east coast is a different value than west. A custom widget/formatter is needed.
Some long standing issues around setting a default time, regarding user timezone handling.
Done
Use relative time 12am, works out as 5pm PDT. (But will need to be changed again for daylight savings time.