You're correct, the calendar only records open or closed for the entire day. All of the things the calendar is used for are all-or-nothing for the day -- Do we charge fines today? Do we send overdue notices today? Stuff like that.

What are you looking to accomplish by recording days with reduced hours? Are you looking for that to figure into hourly checkouts and fines?

Funny you should ask, as it was brought to my attention when I started using your calendar hack to show upcoming closures on the home screen.  The one thing it doesn't show is any early closures, because we can't define those in the calendar.  It would be nice to be able to put those in the calendar, even if they didn't have any particular impact on fines or fees.  Maybe if we marked an event as an early closure, we could have a system preference that would include or exclude those types of events.  That would be a good start.  Then down the road maybe it could have a more fine tuned role.

It seems like it would be useful (and not too deep/involved an enhancement) to add the ability to record an event/note/whatever on a given date in the calendar. Basically attach a title and description to a date but not actually enforce it as a closure. That could be an early closure, a notable program, or any number of other things.

(In reply to Andrew Fuerste-Henry from comment #3)
> It seems like it would be useful (and not too deep/involved an enhancement)
> to add the ability to record an event/note/whatever on a given date in the
> calendar. Basically attach a title and description to a date but not
> actually enforce it as a closure. That could be an early closure, a notable
> program, or any number of other things.

That would be QUITE useful.  :)