Feature request: time/date engine (aka 'black box')

[GAUSS]

It is complicated with a load of variables.

That‘s why i only made a rotating bezel and hand depending on utc.

[andrew.dowden]

@jmorga106:

So, would you be in favour of a ‘black box’, embedded in Facer, that did most of this for you?

[jmorga106]

Surrrre if it’s not too much trouble. but I gotta figure this out. I’m close…

[andrew.dowden]

I tortured myself with the same formulae issues … before I just switch to using #DNOW#.

Once I had formulaic logic to return Year, Month, Day and Hours, Minutes from #DNOW#, it is easy to just adjust the time by +/- 1-13 hours. Then you just have to deal with Daylight/Summer Time start/end dates, etc.

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My problem is that gets too complicated and has to be repeated 20-30 times in a single watchface …

[zookcruzr]

Hi Andrew, did you end up publishing your day and date solution for UTC? I can’t seem to find another person who was close.

[andrew.dowden]

I have made progress for UTC, and am still working on timezones (but making some progress).

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Current thread: Select Timezone feature

Which showed this:

[zookcruzr]

Thanks Andrew
I’ve started a thread of my own, relating to my specific goal.

Two Zone Watch Face

Hi all I have scoured the forum for an answer and I cannot find one. I live in Sydney where the time zone is currently AEDT which is UTC+11. This is during daylight saving. Daylight saving occurs between the first Sunday in October and ends on the first Sunday in April. But I will get to that in a moment. I have a simple watch designed for my current time and showing the time in London (UTC). I want to include the date (#DdL#) and day (#DE#) of the month for London. There are plenty of t…

[rob.fisk]

@andrew.dowden

@jmorga106:

So, would you be in favour of a ‘black box’, embedded in Facer, that did most of this for you?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an expression such as dateTimeByZone(hour24,GMT), dateTimeByZone(dayNameShort,EST)