LionCal help please in month view

Question

Hi everyone, I am having some major iCal woes that I hope someone has the answer to.
Ok this is how I handle my workflow. I have numerous calendars such as "call", "viewing", "meeting", "work misc", "personal" etc. All colour coded and I use the month view as standard.
Under SL I would double click the day I add an event go through the boxes (name, location, time, etc) click save and job done.
Now under Lion when I double click a day I get an event box but only the header. So I have to type the header hit return then double click on the event again to get the box up so I can assign the event the right time and calendar to use. This is taking twice as long as it did before under SL and is a pain when you have a client on the phone. Am I missing something here? Why is it now so hard? - and I have tried that quick entry business but it doesn't work for me, I simply want the whole calendar entry box when I double click in month view.
Next problem is all new events go in as a all day event. Again another click I didn't need to do in SL. Then untick all day and enter a time LionCal doesn't set the end time 1 hour later anymore it sets it hours later for me, sometimes into the next day so I have to click into the date box and type the end date, again a massive slow down in my workflow.
Finally and most annoyingly in month view I cannot for the life of me get a 12 hour clock with AM/PM. I checked my international page in sys prefs and all is ok but LionCal is not playing ball.
Any help would be appreciated as I love iCal and run my life with it over MobileMe.

Answer 1

I noticed a related bug too.
When I switch my international time zone to UK British time,  my top right corner system clock works fine but in ical monthly view, the AM/PM times are all messed up, some are in 23:00 format, some in 11:00pm format. But if I wanted 24hr format everything is fine it just comes as 23:00 consistently for all times.
I was very frustrated with this too, as I wanted UK style dates like for 5th Jan 2011 --> 05/01/11, but I also wanted AM/PM in time settings, somehow in Lion, Apple won't let someone have UK date style without 24hr format.
The only workaround I found so far is to use Hong Kong setting. As Hong Kong has the same date format and also it "allows" AM/PM display!
Please Apple, fix the bug!!