Absolute time selector widget in time picker

[stbka]

I am sometimes using the absolute time picker. For date selection you can use your mouse clicking through the GUI. This is nice. But if you want to change the time ranges in hours and minutes you have to use your keyboard, click each field for hour and minute at starting and ending time, type in some numbers in the correct format. Aim the next field with your mouse, again type some stuff in there... That is quite cumbersome.

Wouldn't it be easier to have some mechanism you can control with your mouse as well?
I could image some kind of horizontal scroll bar (one for minute and one for hour) below the calendar. Or a clock with two hands. I am not very creative maybe somebody else has a good idea.

This issue is related to the time-based navigation issue: #1956 as it affects the same topic.

[rashidkpc]

I'd be open to this if anyone comes up with a nice way of doing it. I've never seen a time selector that I really like

[rashidkpc]

Via @stratosgear:

When using the Absolute Time Filter to navigate to a specific date I find that the time selection to be problematic.

The reason for going "back in time"is because I want to filter the events in a specified day-period. I would assume that clicking through various days the time selection to be automatically set to 00:00:00 so I can filter the events on day boundaries.

Also it is not clear how to select single day ranges. I would assume that if I click on May 1st for starting date and May 1st for ending date that I am selecting May 1st as a single date.

Further tweaks on the time selection can be done after I select my date (a nicer time selector, as mentioned in #2063 would be indeed a nice addition, but this is not related with the issue I'm reporting here)

[ppf2]

Related use case is to provide a single day option in the absolute timepicker screen to allow users to simply click on a single date and it will automatically set the time from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 (for example) for that date without having the user select from both datepicker controls and type in the hour/min/second information from the keyboard.

[ppf2]

to allow users to simply click on a single date and it will automatically set the time from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 (for example)

The above use case was actually backported to 5.4 (#10433).

[nreese]

Closing, the timepicker added in 7.0 has a UI component for selecting hour and minute to the nearest half hour