I have applied the patch which trims the schedule. This has helped no end. However, we do live broadcasts from nightclubs which may start at 10pm and go on until 3am the next day.

All normal programs start at 6pm. So ideally, the 'day' will start at 6pm, and everything previous can by trimmed using the patch. However, with programs overrunning until 3am for example, the trimming patch doesn't really work.

Would it be possible, although technically incorrect, to have a day starting at 6pm and going through until 3am and calling it 'Tuesday' or whatever. Then 'Wednesday' starts at 6pm again.

I feel this would also solve the secondary problem i am having. I try to schedule a program on Saturday night, to finish at midnight, however i am told 'a program must begin before it can end'. Obviously, the schedule module doesn't take into account 'weeks', and therefore thinks that my program finishing at midnight on Sunday morning, is before Saturday (Sunday must be the first day if the week?).

But if a 'day' ran through until 3am anyway, this would solve both my problems perhaps?

Thanks in advance.

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drewish commented

Yeah, we've got a similar gap in our schedule from 2am - 8am that is a
bit annoying, but not any where as annoying as 3am - 6pm...

> Is it possible to have a 'day' run from 6pm through till 3am. Then the
> next day starting at 6pm again. I know its technically incorrect, but i
> think it could work for us.

Well, the schedule could be displayed that way and it might be more
intuitive to visitors but it rubs me wrong.

Rather than shifting hours to different days, I'd be more into
specifying a band of time to have dropped from the schedule. So you
could say ignore 3am-6pm and we could say ignore 2-9am.

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drewish commented
Title: Scheduling After Midnight » Hide parts of the weekly schedule

better title

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andy.clarke commented

Sounds like a plan. Maybe have a selection grid? As if it were a schedule, but not populated with programs, simply used to select what is to be displayed.

Then you can select bands of time all over the place, using a tick box to display or not display. This could also be extended to show or hide days of the week.....im sure someone out there may find it useful?

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andy.clarke commented

It is also probably important to highlight where time bands have been hidden too. So as not to confuse the casual user who may skim the information rather than reading it, and then misinterpret that a program follows on, when infact there is a hidden break.

Maybe a double line ––––––––– indicating a gap. Possibly with the functionality for the user to show / hide these gaps?

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drewish commented

humm, javascript hiding might be the best way to do it... i'd have to do some research to figure out how to do it in jquery but i'm sure it's possible.

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andy.clarke commented

Cool, and luck?

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drewish commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

i think this is really a duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/120296