I'm referring to the moment after a date is chosen and the user clicks on the time picker. I've seen confused looks on the faces of several users when the time defaults to the current time, especially the minutes setting. It really doesn't make any sense that now is used as the default time for future events.

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#4 date-empty-default-value-current-time.patch1.82 KBezheidtmann

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amanire commented
Priority: Normal » Minor
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drewish commented

yeah, i'd agree. it's kind of wierd to start typing and have the current time pop in.

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arlinsandbulte commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Sort of related to these issues, IMO:
#523218: Default value for To date: Blank should stay blank - D6 issue
#874322: To Date & All Day Date Handling - D7 issue

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ezheidtmann commented
Assigned: Unassigned » ezheidtmann
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Status: Closed (duplicate) » Needs review
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new date-empty-default-value-current-time.patch1.82 KB

As far as I can tell, those linked issues are not duplicates.

This patch fixes the issue by not sending a "startTime" option to the jQuery timepicker if the field doesn't have a default value.

However, I would support removing the startTime under all circumstances; In many circumstances it's confusing to have the list of values starting at the current time.

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 4: date-empty-default-value-current-time.patch, failed testing.

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ezheidtmann commented
Version: 6.x-2.0-rc5 » 7.x-2.x-dev
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socialnicheguru commented

is this patch for 7.x?