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Events are always set to 1 hour

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Just recently, when I create an event in Thunderbird Calendar, it won't let me make the event last for more than 1 hour. If I set the start time to 15:30, and the end time to 17:30, the start time is reset to 16:30. If I change that back to 15:30, the end time is reset to 16:30. One of my Calendars is actually an online calendar which is then drawn down into Thunderbird. If I change the length of the meeting in another app/on another device, that works, and when the calendars are synched, Thunderbird accepts it regardless of how long the event is.

Just recently, when I create an event in Thunderbird Calendar, it won't let me make the event last for more than 1 hour. If I set the start time to 15:30, and the end time to 17:30, the start time is reset to 16:30. If I change that back to 15:30, the end time is reset to 16:30. One of my Calendars is actually an online calendar which is then drawn down into Thunderbird. If I change the length of the meeting in another app/on another device, that works, and when the calendars are synched, Thunderbird accepts it regardless of how long the event is.

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To the right of the two time-setting boxes, there is a picture of a chain link. This is a button and if clicked, will toggle on/off the linking of the two buttons. By default they are linked and whichever you change, the other will track to preserve the default event period.

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To the right of the two time-setting boxes, there is a picture of a chain link. This is a button and if clicked, will toggle on/off the linking of the two buttons. By default they are linked and whichever you change, the other will track to preserve the default event period.

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Thank you for that, it's been driving me spare!

It's a shame nobody bothered to update the "How to" page ([https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/creating-a-new-event-or-task] ) to reflect this change. And a bit poor to set a new feature to the new default without explaining it.

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It would be nice if somehow the appearance of the chain would indicate whether the times are linked. Perhaps an open link could mean that you could change the times independently.

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Did you not see the arrowhead that comes and goes to indicate when they are linked or not?

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To be fair, the arrowhead only "comes and goes" if you know to click on the chain - there's nothing to make it obvious to suggest that it's anything more than decorative. I note that the help page (as linked to in my reply of 19/10) still hasn't been updated to reflect the change- the graphics there don't show the chain and arrow(s). I still don't see why this change was imposed on long-standing users of Lightning with no notice...

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Sorry, I did not notice the change at first, my eyes are not as young as they used to be.

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Zenos said

Did you not see the arrowhead that comes and goes to indicate when they are linked or not?