openingHoursSpecification present for business listings, encoding all 7 days

Incomplete openingHoursSpecification in structured data forces users to contact the business or visit in person to confirm hours — and misleads them when the schema implies all unlisted days are open by omission. Schema-org OpeningHoursSpecification requires explicit entries for every day of the week, including closures; a 5-day entry covering Monday–Friday leaves Saturday and Sunday in an undefined state that search engines may interpret as open. Users who show up based on incorrect Google knowledge panel hours generate negative reviews. For directories competing on data quality, missing hours degrade the product's core value proposition of replacing a phone call.

Populate openingHoursSpecification for all seven days when rendering listing JSON-LD. Closed days must be explicitly included with empty opens/closes strings rather than omitted.

// lib/hours-schema.ts
const DAYS = ['Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday','Sunday'] as const;

export function buildHoursSpec(hours: Record<string, { opens: string; closes: string } | null>) {
  return DAYS.map(day => ({
    "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
    "dayOfWeek": day,
    "opens": hours[day]?.opens ?? "",
    "closes": hours[day]?.closes ?? "",
  }));
}

Call buildHoursSpec(listing.hours) inside your buildListingSchema helper and assign the result to "openingHoursSpecification". Validate the output in Google's Rich Results Test after deploy.

• ID: directory-listing-schema.structured-data.opening-hours

• Severity: low

• What to look for: List all listings with opening hours. For each, for business/restaurant directories, check JSON-LD for openingHoursSpecification. Verify it includes entries for all 7 days of the week (or documents which days are closed).

• Pass criteria: For business listings, openingHoursSpecification is present and includes all 7 days (with both open and closed days represented) — at least 7 day entries per listing (Monday through Sunday) in structured format. Report: "X listings with hours found, all Y use structured openingHoursSpecification."

• Fail criteria: openingHoursSpecification is missing or incomplete (e.g., only contains 3 days).

• Skip (N/A) when: Your directory is not a business/restaurant directory, or listings don't have operating hours.

• Detail on fail: Example: "openingHoursSpecification missing from JSON-LD" or "Only includes Monday-Friday; Saturday and Sunday not included"

• Remediation: Populate opening hours for all days:

  const jsonLd = {
    "@type": "LocalBusiness",
    "openingHoursSpecification": [
      { "dayOfWeek": "Monday", "opens": "09:00", "closes": "17:00" },
      { "dayOfWeek": "Tuesday", "opens": "09:00", "closes": "17:00" },
      { "dayOfWeek": "Saturday", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "14:00" },
      { "dayOfWeek": "Sunday", "opens": "", "closes": "" }
    ]
  }