Event card
Written by Benji Weiser
Updated at May 23rd, 2023
Event cards allow you to highlight upcoming events with information about date, time and location. Events can be added to users' calendars, or include a link to find out more elsewhere.
All of what appears on the card can be controlled in Express, or can be mapped via an automated feed.
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Handling dates and times
Event cards start and end times are well-formed ISO8601 date-times which include the offset from GMT of the zone the event is happening in. E.g. WWDC starts at 2022-06-06T09:00:00-07:00
Currently we ALWAYS display the event time in the user/device’s timezone. E.g. assuming BST, WWDC’s start will be shown as “6 June at 5 PM”.
Going forward we want to display event times in the user/device’s time zone ALWAYS (as now) and IF AND ONLY IF a zone label string is provided AND the date-time components are different in the event’s timezone, additionally show the “event’s local time”
E.g. assuming BST AND a zone label string of “PST”, WWDC would show as “6 June at 5 PM (6 June at 9 AM PST)” (or something like this, exact format TBD)
Virtual events for which there is no local timezone, can omit the zone label string, and will always be shown only in the user/device’s zone.