I have to agree that this is needed. When you choose the events template, there are a lot of great features, but setting the date is so limited. Why do I have to jump a month at a time to get to the right month? Why can't I just pick the month, day, and year?
If the event will be recurring or have multiple shifts, I should be able to add those, so it will appear at every day, without having redundant work of copying the event for every instance of its occurrence.