[Koha] Due dates

[Shea Craig]

I realize this is entirely not what Koha was designed for, but I haven't
found anything else remotely close to solving my problems.  I manage an
equipment cage at the Art Institute of Philadelphia and use a really
terrible software package called Athena for all of my circulation
purposes.  Anyhow, I want to switch to using Koha, but I have some
questions and or ideas.

One thing that would be really useful would be to have the due
date/month/year have a preferences setting that could have it
automatically default to the current date, x number of days in advance,
etc, depending on what format the item was, etc.  (Athena does have this,
but it doesn't work the way we need it to...)  It's a real problem to have
to specify this stuff every time something is checked out.

ALso, and this is very non-library related, we have a rather ridiculous
checkout periods system in effect.  All equipment checked out before 5 on
any weekday must be back by 5, after 5 can be checked out overnight or be
due back by 9:45, etc.  So an hour:min setting for the due dates would be
great too.

I realize I should get off my butt and add this stuff myself, but I'm not
sure where to start.

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