Midnight at 00:00 not making sense - looking for ideas and suggestions

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Fiddling with a simple booking system for a music venue. The people working on that venue starts working at 17:00-ish at one day, and is finished 03:00-04:00. For a maintainer of the calendar, saying that something happens on May 19th at 01:00 when it actually happens on May 20th at 01:00, makes sense.

Any ideas and suggestions on how to implement this kind of thing and keep everything smooth, sexy and DRY?

(Yes, that's a vague question, so I'm looking for overall ideas and suggestions, not funky app-specific details)

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Answering myself for the win.

This - Hey there, time traveller! | Filament Group, Inc. looks pretty sexy. A sensible time input for this particular case. As for viewing it, doing some fancy sort by with a modulo should work, setting the "midnight" of the calendar view to 05:00 or something.

calendar_events.sort_by {|e| (e.time_and_date - 16.hours).hour % 24 }