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I Thought a Calendar Was Just a 7-Column Grid Until I Started Building One
A calendar looks like one of the simplest interfaces on the web.
Seven columns. A few rows. Some numbers. Maybe a previous and next button.
That was roughly how I thought about calendars too.
Then I started looking more closely at how calendar interfaces actually work, and the "simple grid" turned into a surprisingly interesting engineering problem.
Dates are not always timestamps.
Weeks don't start on the same day everywhere.
Months aren't the same length.
Printing has comp...
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