Time picker - better UX + a11y about indico HOT 2 OPEN

Yeah, my suggestion was to provide a time picker that is based on the combobox with a list of time presets in 15-minute increments, similar to how it works in Google Calendar.

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Will a combobox work for this purpose though? I think it may work OK if you can include all the times, but I'm sure you don't want to show 720 entries for every minute, and even w/ 5/15 minute steps you'd still have 288/96 individual items.

(^ that part was written before the last comment from @foxbunny)

I typically just type the time - but something like 1330 for 13:30 would already require some fuzzy matching behavior. I'd certainly want the text field of the combobox to update to the properly formatted time when it loses focus (like on Google Calendar). GC also handles am/pm nicely for those using that particular format, e.g. I an enter 0130pm and it will convert it to 1:30pm, and if I type 1330 or 13:30 it will nonetheless recognize it and set it as 1:30pm on blur.

All that said, I personally never found it annoying/unpleasant to enter a time on Google Calendar, and considering how popular that tool is, maybe the same kind of behavior is good enough for us and our users. :)

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