bodarax

@designextreme I agree that 7 days is not ideal.

I can tell you, why for me it would be useful:
The website is for a beach restaurant, which has regular hours but will also open early on days with good weather.
Currently, that means, they publish additional hours on a daily basis. They would like to have that reflected on their website so that customers can check if they are open or not.

I would give users the option to import regular house and special hours independently. A warning that only the next 7 days will be imported should appear. As a compromise, it should be possible to still enter dates that are further in the future and only have them updated when they fall in the next 7 days (maybe give them a checkbox “don’t sync with Google” or only override days which are also special days in google).

I can’t speak for every industry/ person, but I think most customers looking for opening hours only check for today, tomorrow, or the next weekend. One exception I can think of is restaurants on Christmas or similar big holidays. But Google also doesn’t display that information, and most business owners will advise these days in a special form anyway.

Btw. you don’t have to compare regular and current opening hours because you get “specialDays” in the currentOpeningHours request, which tells you the modified days.

And thanks, I found the we_are_open_frequency option.