Infer colon in time
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type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
We may consider inferring the colon in an event's time during the add/edit operations.
12-hour clock:
9a -> 09:00 am
430p -> 04:30 pm
24-hour clock:
800 -> 08:00
1500 -> 15:00


Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing khal's add/edit operations and the existing event-time parsing. Check how 12-hour and 24-hour inputs are currently handled, then verify that the examples in the issue produce the requested normalized times in both operations.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100