It seems ParksDC changed its multi-day VPP process and I got really confused by it, so posting here to a) share the change with others in case anyone else was also confused and b) vent about it because it's the internet and that's what people love to do.

Previously, I had a visitor arriving around 1:30pm on 9/4 and leaving around 8am 9/6. So, I scheduled a VPP for her from 1:30pm 9/4 to 8am on 9/6 - great! (confirmed this used to be the case by looking at the pass I printed out back then).

Now, I have a visitor arriving around 10am on 1/2 and leaving around 8am on 1/4. But when I try to schedule a VPP for her, the "multi-day" option now requires you to set up a recurring time period on multiple days.

So:

• If I try to schedule 10am 1/2 through 8am 1/4, the website tells me I can't because the system reads that as the start time being earlier than the end time - it thinks it's 10am-8am on 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4.
• If I try to schedule 10am 1/2 through 11am 1/4, it gives me a pass for someone to park between 10am and 11am on 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4.
• The only way to have a multi-day pass for this person seems to be to schedule 7am-11:55pm for 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4, even though she's arriving well after 7am on 1/2 and leaving well before 11:55pm on 1/4. It also has to be marked as "daily recurring" or customized to be recurring for Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday.

In the grand scheme of things I understand that this is minor, but I found this change to be incredibly unintuitive and it could screw someone over if they thought they were scheduling e.g. 10am 1/2 through 11am 1/4 but the car ends up getting ticketed because the pass is actually for 10am-11am each day in that period.