Date Module

I am trying to change the default date value of an exposed views filter select element from "-Year" to "Select a Year". All other form elements can be easily changed with hook_form_form_ID_alter but not a date select.

Can anybody point me in the right direction with this?

Hey all! I emailed KarenS about possible work on the date module, and the following is a summary of what we came up with. I'll post more details/respond to discussions if people think this is a viable proposal.

About Me: I am a current college sophomore concentrating in physics and math with a computer science secondary. I am an experienced Drupal developer, having worked with Development Seed for two years now in both Drupal 5 and 6. I have a lot of experience with the date module, as well as relevant areas such as Views 2, CCK, and FormAPI. I have submitted patches to many modules including date and views, the most relevant to this work being an outstanding one adding flexible granularity to the current dates: http://drupal.org/node/259308.

Overview: There are a number of areas KarenS and I discussed as possible options for a summer of work. The primary ones include refactoring the API to be more understandable, cleaner, and to use OO techniques where applicable. I think significant gains in simplicity and extensibility are possible here, which would be very useful for such an important module used in many other applications. Another is reimplementing the submodules in this light. A third is finishing flexible granularity and other additions on top of the API. All this will probably be done in the context of the update of Date module to Views 3 and Drupal 7.

I was wondering if anyone has been successful in building an organization event calendar.

I have followed several howtos, and always seem to get stuck when the events are listed in the calendar view at the time of creation of the node, instead of the date of the event.

Other issues, such as how to create multi-day events, etc are also troubling 9I have not gotten that far)

I would also love to have a "Upcoming events block" that lists the next several upcoming event nodes, and automatically selects for the next week. (I actually got this close to working, but screwed it up)

I am looking with someone experienced with importing iCal feeds to meet with. I just want someone to look over what I've done and see if there is a blatant error I've caused. I am getting most of the data imported, just not "to date". And the attempt to import the data seems to hang up cron.

I live in the Cary/Apex area, would be willing to travel to Morrisville or Raleigh though. Meet me at a Caribou (free wifi) and I'll purchase you a large coffee of your choice!

It appears the latest Date 5.x-2.3 module has a minor conflict when using the "Text Field with jquery pop-up calendar" within Panels 2. It doesn't work at first, you will need to refresh the page to get it to work.