ical default all day

The default is "all day". Seems like a bug to me. File feedback

or a bug report you can join ADC free.

You could probably change it by rewriting a word of code in the prefs file...

I might fool atound with it. Just for giggles and laughs.

In Lion, I found that you just type your event time in the Event Description and it uses that time, but doesn't display it where you typed. I'm not sure if it works that way in Leopard or Snow Leopard. Hope it helps!

I am having the same problem. "All Day" should be an option setting, not the default. Hope there is a way to change it.

Besides the "All Day" default, there is a "Start/End Date" issue. When I enter a new event, the "End Date" jumps ahead to the next day. Even when I am just entering hour-long events/meetings where the start and end dates should be the same. I have had to go back and re-key "End Dates" on many entries where the day was supposed to stay the same.

Also, the TIME fields are harder to use. I used to be able to type in a "Start Time" and click "AM" or "PM" and the "End Time" changed to the same selection. Now, you have to key in everything. Seems small, but it adds up to many more keystrokes in a day!

Lastly, sometimes when I sync with MM, old calendar information is pulled into my iphone--things that have not been on my calendar in years!

Hope some of these things can be fixed!

I agree Elizabeth. ICal before Lion was almost intuitive. If I booked an appt. at 2 pm the end date time would be 3 pm. This saved a lot of time. Now, I don't trust the program and have to double-check the information that is in the field. Sometimes the end date would be the next day. We really need to speak up about this more and hopefully Apple will provide a fix. I find ICal to be almost useless if I can't trust it to work the way it once did.

To schedule a meeting named "Safety Review Meeting" from 2:00 until 4:00 PM on todays date: Type "2-4pm Safety Review Meeting" into the Event Description. If you just type "2pm Safety Review Meeting" it will assume one hour meeting. iCal "knows" that the times you specified don't need to be displayed in the Event Description.

Allow me to be more clear about how I have always used the program.

I work out of the month page because I need to see that. On the date for the appt. I double-click. A box opens that says "new event". I type jane doe Swedish (i am a massage therapist). I then click once outside of the box to set it and then click the now set appt to open the time date info box. When that opens...ALL DAY is already checked, and it never used to be like that. I uncheck it, and now type the start time, am or pm, and usually what would happen is if I typed 10am it would automatically make the finish time 11am. Sometimes, after I type in the start time it will change the finish date to the next day. So, what happens if you don't notice that, is you have a two day appt on your ical. Hmmm? All of this made me think to try booking an appt from the daily and weekly calendar. Both entries worked ok. ALL DAY was not checked. So, it is only from the monthly calendar that a checked all day box is the default. Hopefully, Apple will remedy this, in the meantime, I will be changing the way I use ICal.

Thanks for the tip about working from the day or week calendar. But, like you, I usually work on the monthly calendar. And the ALL DAY defaul is VERY ANNOYING as is the fact that it sets these random long time for the end of the appointment. I don't do code, but obviously the Snow Leopard code has already been written and could be put in the next update for Lion. Please.

OMG! Thank you @Gardencourfor that simple explanation. I'm back in love with iCal on Lion!

This has been driving me crazy also. I just saw this on another forum:

If you prefer to use the monthy view than you can type in your event or appt. followed by the time in parenthesis (ie. Meeting "1200") than ical will not default to all day anymore and will set your appt. up in hour increments. You will see blank "'s on your calendar after your event title but I am ok with that if I dont have to edit each event individually.

I hate the way iCal now defaults to All Day, but until they change it (or if they don't change it) - THANK YOU firstweclean your solution at least makes it easier to setup an event. It may not be how I want it to work, but your suggestion was new to me and very useful! Once I use it for awhile, maybe I will grow to love it (time will tell). Thanks again!

I just noticed something weird. I added an event on my monthly iCal display, and it was using my wife's calendar instead of mine (I have hers, mine, and ours displaying in different colors on our iCal). It didn't default with the all-day set. I changed to the "Brazee" calendar and set it. Then I double clicked a calendar item on a different date to add an event. This time it used the "Brazee" calendar, as that was the last one I created an event for. And the all day box was checked.

So one calendar has this as the default, the other doesn't. I want it never to be the default.

Good News ! Mavericks seems to have fixed the Default "All Day" issue

The iCal in Mavericks has a much different color and look

but even in the MONTH view you click at a approx time and you get the invitation you want

ALL DAY box is NOT Ticked

Change time in the old way by clicking the numbers

Now a small irritant crept in

There is no EDIT button

you need to click on the time and then the EDIT boxe pops up

This one is easy to get used to , I suppose

Hmmm, I will have to play with it some more - when I added a new event, it still was an all-day event.

I didn't figure out how to edit by myself, I had to look up the procedure.

And when I'm done creating or editing an event - there isn't an obvious way to close it. Clicking elsewhere on the calendar doesn't do it. So I end up closing iCal and then opening it to make sure my event is there.