Making Dates and Calendars Rock!

Karen Stevenson, maintainer of Date and Calendar modules

using demo module to demonstrate, organic groups

Date Tools admin screen (under Content) allows you to set up a bunch of features at once that used to be scattered
creates a content type, field, and View (with page & block displays) automatically!
default values for From & To dates can be specified relative to current time or each other
site-wide custom formats for date display
default display of calendar is determined by granularity setting
year range is important to keep bots from going through your calendar forever -- can be absolute or relative
multiple date fields can be shown on the same calendar, using colors to distinguish
tons of localization improvements