Absolute date

[deadherring]

I am trying to get the calendar module display my calendar in absolute date. I want appointments to read the actual time of the appointment, e.g. “3PM”

This is what my MM is doing:

Appointment today: in an hour
Appointment tomorrow: Tomorrow at 11 AM
Appointment 2 days from now: Tuesday at 12PM
Appointment 4 days from now: In 4 days

Here’s the calendar part of my config.js: (apologies, I know I’m supposed to post this in markdown but am not sure how)

{
module: ‘calendar’,
header: ‘Calendar’,
position: ‘top_left’,
config: {
calendars: [
{
symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
url: ‘redacted’,

				},

{
symbol: ‘rocket’,
url: ‘redacted’
}

			]

Here’s what the top part of my calendar.js file looks like:

Module.register(“calendar”,{

// Define module defaults
defaults: {
	maximumEntries: 10, // Total Maximum Entries
	maximumNumberOfDays: 365,
	displaySymbol: true,
	defaultSymbol: "calendar", // Fontawesome Symbol see http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/
	displayRepeatingCountTitle: false,
	defaultRepeatingCountTitle: '',
	maxTitleLength: 15,
	fetchInterval: 5 * 60 * 1000, // Update every 5 minutes.
	animationSpeed: 2000,
	fade: false,
	urgency: 7,
	timeFormat: "absolute",
	fadePoint: 0.25, // Start on 1/4th of the list.
	calendars: [
		{
			symbol: "calendar",
			url: "http://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics",
		},
	],
	titleReplace: {
		"De verjaardag van ": "",
		"'s birthday": ""
	},
},

Any help is appreciated.

Nathan

[deadherring]

Anyone? Does anyone have absolute date working as I describe? Can someone post the relevant portion of their config file so I can see what you’ve done?

Thanks.

[mjtice]

Any word on this? I’m using a 7" raspberry pi display and that ‘Tomorrow at 10:00 AM’ eats up a lot of real estate.

Here’s my config:

            {
                    module: 'calendar',
                    header: 'My Calendar',
                    position: 'top_right',
                    config: {
                      calendars: [
                        {
                          symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
                          url: '[redacted]'
                        }
                      ],
                      maximumEntries: 10,
                      maxTitleLength: 12,
                      titleReplace: {'Appointment':'Appt'},
                      displaySymbol: false,
                      timeFormat: 'relative'
                    }
            },

[mjtice]

… and by
{
timeFormat: ‘relative’
}

I mean
{
timeFormat: ‘absolute’
}
ugh.

[mjtice]

This post is deleted!

[mjtice]

Turns out my problem came down mostly to not really understanding the difference between ‘absolute’ and ‘relative’… I fixed my problem by modifying the code in calendar.js slightly.

 // Otherwise just say 'Today/Tomorrow at such-n-such time'
 timeWrapper.innerHTML = moment(event.startDate, "x").calendar(null, {
                                                        sameDay: 'H:mm',
                                                        nextDay: '[Tomorrow] H:mm',
                                                        nextWeek: 'dddd',
                                                        lastDay: '[Yesterday]',
                                                        lastWeek: '[Last] dddd',
                                                        sameElse: 'DD/MM/YYYY'
                                                    });

I sort of hijacked this thread. Sorry (but I think my solution might help out the OP ).

[daikaiju]

@mjtice What lines did you implement that code on?

[DeanoAus]

@mjtice Thanks man, that solved my problem too. Except I added NextWeek: ‘dddd DD/MM/YYYY’

Cheers!

[mjtice]

@daikaiju it’s on line 245 in the current release. Keep in mind that if you upgrade you’ll lose those changes (as I did exactly 2 days after I made that post…).