Sorry for not being clear about that. The purpose of this helper method (hence the underline before that name) is to take an event positioned in the DOM and convert its position into a timestamp for that event. Probably the only place this will be called is when some change is made to the DOM of the event. For example, when it is resized, it'll have a different height as well as "top" offset, so that'll have to be translated into a timestamp. I don't know any other way to do this that would be fundamentally different, since at some point the pixel-based resizing is going to have to become a timestamp. Nothing in this function will be used anywhere else, hence I didn't make any more helper functions for my helper function. Thanks!

EDIT: And yes, I agree, if I ever decide to make events more fancy than just dropping in a DIV on the timetable, I'll probably have to do a bit more. But of course, only a couple things will change then, and I can just write those as helper functions for this function.