LostCarPark Drupal Blog: Drupal Advent Calendar day 10 – Smart Date

It’s day 10 of the Drupal Advent Calendar, and behind today’s door we find the Smart Date module. We are joined by its creator, Martin Anderson-Clutz (mandclu), to tell us about it.

I was originally inspired to create Smart Date by my own frustration at how tedious it was to input dates and time in a Drupal website. I noticed that popular calendar applications used a variety of conventions to make the process simpler for content creators, for example:

• Automatically set the end date and time based on the start, and a configurable duration
• Default the start time to the start of the next hour…