(At time of this article the current version of Date was\u00a0date-7.x-2.6.tar.gz)<\/em><\/p>\n After installing the Date module activate all the Date\/Time features you can. Some like Date Context and Date Migration\u00a0cannot\u00a0be activated because they are missing additional modules but you can ignore these for now. Continue past them and activate all you can down to the Date Tools and Date Views.<\/p>\n Next you will need to set up the site’s first day of the week, system date formats and time zone.\u00a0The Date API requires that you set up the site first day of week settings to function correctly. \u00a0To do this, from the top bar of admin menu:<\/p>\n Configuration \u00bb Regional and language<\/p>\n Click on Regional settings<\/span><\/p>\n Set Time Zone<\/em><\/p>\n Set your Default time zone using the drop down and then click on Save configuration.<\/p>\n Next got to Configuration \u00bb Regional and language<\/p>\n Click on Date and time<\/span><\/p>\n And set up the system date formats for the date module to function correctly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Set Date Display Format – Default 24 hour<\/p>\n Note the default is 24 hour format – If you are working in the morning this may not be obvious.<\/p>\n You will want to set this to a non 24 clock as most visitors will be used to the normal 12 hour clock.<\/p>\n Also watch to set the date according to your region – MM\/DD\/YYYY for the US for example.<\/p>\n If you are not careful you might set the date thinking it is mm\/dd when it is really dd\/mm. \u00a0Below we are setting for Sunday Dec 11, 2011 at 5:16pm<\/p>\n Figure 12 Set Date Display Format to 12 hour<\/p>\n You have the option of creating your own custom date formats – on the right of the form you will notice tabs for Types (where we are now) and Formats (where you can define your own).\u00a0 We will skip custom.<\/p>\n Date Formats<\/p>\n Install Signup module for options for managing and contacting event participants. \u00a0 It does not seem to be complete for Drupal 7.x so if the only version available is dev I would skip it.<\/p>\n http:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/signup<\/a>\u00a0(Hold off on this one until non Dev. version ready).<\/p>\n Install Flags for tagging events and other notes. Install Profile2 module to add registration questions to new user forms – if you don’t intend to do this later you can skip this module. \u00a0Activate under “Other” in module list. Noggin for better page headers. Menu Icons Next step – Install Key Drupal Modules – Part 4: Calendar and Events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Date Module http:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/date (At time of this article the current version of Date was\u00a0date-7.x-2.6.tar.gz) After installing the Date module activate all the Date\/Time features you can. Some like Date Context and Date Migration\u00a0cannot\u00a0be activated because they are missing additional modules … Continue reading Day of Week and Time Zone<\/h3>\n
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\nhttp:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/flag<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nhttp:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/noggin<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/drupal.org\/project\/menu_icons<\/a>\u00a0– This one in Beta (as of Sept 2012) so you can skip for later if you want to but listed here for reference.<\/p>\n