Calendar time - capitalize first letters

yo-less

I have found another detail that bothered me. If the calendar is set to ‘relative, 6 hours before an event occurs the calendar would start showing the time in relative terms (for example: “In 5 hours” - but then it would stay that way until it would switch to “In 4 hours” an hour later, which is pretty confusing as far as I’m concerned. If I’'m not mistaken, it stays pretty vague until 45 minutes before the event when the countdown truly starts).

I found this behavior rather counter-intuitive, as I might want to check the mirror to find out the exact time when an event starts. This is why I have introduced a tag getRelative, which can take any value between 0 and 48 hours. So if a user configures their calendar like this:

modules: [
...
    {
        module: 'calendar',
        position: 'top_left',   
        config: {
               getRelative: 0.5
          }
        }
    },
...

their events start getting relative half an hour before the event (“In 30 minutes”), if they decide they don’t like relative times at all, they can set it like this: getRelative: 0. This way, it is easier for users to customize the calendar’s relative behavior to their needs.

This is now included in my pull request.

On a related note: Can anybody tell me why there is a timeFormat: absolute option? I set my calendar to absolute but didn’t notice any difference.

MichMich

@yo-less About that last part (getRelative). You might want to add info about it to the calendar readme.

yo-less

@MichMich I agree with you, which is why you have merged what I have done already :D
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/tree/develop/modules/default/calendar

MichMich

@yo-less lol. Missed that. 😂

opensky727

@yo-less I want to do the same, what have you done so I can try to do the same on mine?
Thanks