Ask HN: Why don't calendars show "x days to event y"?

Depends on who makes it and how its perceived. If it is something like an up-front ad banner that is shown on the fly - (Movie premieres in 7 days!) it works, if it is somewhere not visited often people may forget to check.

I do event lists with the days in between listed... https://doplaces.com/events I make sure to list the day name as well as I think more about what day it is than the date.

X days might be confusing if it's not live like an email or facebook post (which I regularly discover after the events)

Because that’s a rarely used answer for “when is that event?”

If it’s a few weeks away, why use something like “in 24 days” rather than “3 weeks from now” (adding “on Wednesday” if more precision is needed)? If it’s close by, isn’t “Friday evening” or “Tuesday next week” way more often a better answer than “in 5 days”?

I think “tomorrow” “the day after tomorrow” (and yesterday”) are about the only exceptions to this, but those you can easily glance from the current layout.

Imho calendar apps shpuld have a way to visualise “how many days to events”.

Currently, I need to calculate myself. I’m lazy I know, but why do I need to subtract event’s day - today rather than having countdowns ready on calendar apps/websites?

I built this into https://minicalendar.app (my pet project to learn Blazor). You can also measure the number of days between two events or activities.

two similar questions:

a) why is there no cancel-button (for wrong selection) on ANY elevator i have seen so far?

b) when does Outlook parse automatically the proposed time from an email if i click "make an event out of this mail"-icon

any ideas? :-))))

here's one: https://www.calendarr.com/united-states/

Here's a scary thought, 95 days until Jan. 1.

2024 is coming to an end really fast.

I’m not sure they need to show this specifically? I put an event on my calendar. Any point thereafter, “Hey Siri, how many days to event?” I don’t even need to open the app to get the answer.