[TYPO3-calendar] What is startPointCorrection and endPointCorrection and what's a valid use-case for them?

[Simon Schick]

On 05.03.13 21:40, Mario Matzulla wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Am 05.03.13 15:03, schrieb Simon Schick:
>> Hi, all
>>
>> I had a quite long time debugging why none of my events were showing up.
>> Some of the events had no calendar that was related ... and events
>> without
>> calendar aren't visible at all ..
>>
>> Another reason was, that there was a value at the startPointCorrection
>> and
>> endPointCorrection ...
>> What are these two values for and in what unit is the number I write?
>> Can you please show me a use-case for that?
>
> Imagine a month view containing 2 small month views next to it (prev and
> next month). In such a case only the actual (current/main) month would
> get filled with event, because the query would contain the first day of
> the month as start and last day as end of the period to search for events.
> In such a case you want to extend the search period by one month in each
> direction (to get the events of the prev and next month). That's where
> the start- and endPointCorrection is needed. The value is in seconds.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Regards,
> Mario
>>
>> Bye
>> Simon
>>
>

Hi, Mario

That makes sense, but I would have solved it in a different way ... But 
this would be something to do when implementing FLUID ...

Then you would request the additional date-range in the template and 
don't care about the 2 extra requests made to the database, wouldn't you?

Bye
Simon