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@pjkoeleman Thanks for you reply. I was looking at unsplash, I’ve never heard of it before. They had some quality images but I’d still prefer the 500px one.

I’m not a javascript developer and I haven’t gotten into developing modules for MMM but I would absolutely love to have a module that slide shows the images from 500px popular feed. Sadly it seems that there is no rss for it so there are some parsing that needs to be done.

@Cato yeah I was a little bit too quick there. it’s now changed to “today”.

@Matthes0815 Oh the time on the hardware is correct, otherwise the clock wouldn’t have shown right.

Clock just turned to the 15th november here and my friends birthday is “today”, calendar is still saying tomorrow.

@tajno

I have almost no event/birthday that isn’t in my own timezone (CET). There is a birthday happening in about 50 minutes (when it’ll be 15th november) and it says tomorrow. I will keep an eye on the event on nov 19th how that’s presented

@tajno I have four different calendars two from a google account (hollidays and my own calendar) and two from facebook (birthdays and events)

I have a facebook event in five days (although the start time of it is passed so it’s actually less than 5 x 24h) is correct, while a birthday that’s on the 18th which is also in five days according to MMM. So something is off. according the the ICS file that’s subscribed there are absolute dates on when something happens. Since the calendars that are imported have absolute time stamps there’s really nothing wrong with them, it’s on the interpretation end (MMM)

So the closest birthday I have in my calendar is on the 18th of november, something that occurs in 3 days plus what’s left on this day which is less than two hours. That’s happening in in 74h while MMM-calendar says it’s in five days.

My event that’s on the 19th (Saturday) november at 19h00 is in five days and 21h, five days is correct tuesday+wednesday+thursday+friday+saturday.

I’m wondering if this changes to four days after midnight or of it changes to fourdays at 19h00 on tuesday. I will have to check that when I wake up tomorrow.

I’m really not interested in how many 24h periods is left, I want to know how many actual days are left.

@tajno I don’t develop professionally any more but I’m aware of the issue with timezones but this should not be a big deal and from what I understand the MMM dev is Netherlander which is the same timezone as I’m in.

I’m baffled that nobody else seem to think this is an issue when it says in x day when it actually seem to mean x + 1 day.

If you want the calculations to be done different,

I’m adamant that however you turn and twist this argument. it’s not “different” it’s incorrect. “tomorrow” and “in 1 day” means the same thing. If MMM says it isn’t, MMM is wrong.

So crassly speaking, the module isn’t really working correctly.

There are different ways to calculate it with the right result, it just depends on how you want to do it. I’m just surprised that it isn’t already working like that, I can’t be the only one finding this an issue.

I started configuring and testing MMM a couple of days ago. I set it up with a couple of calendars, my facebook birthday feed for instance. For some reason it’s showing for example “in one day” when it’s really in two days. It’s shows “Tomorrow” correctly,

so let’s say today is the 8th. I have one friends birthday on the 9th and one on the 10th. On the one that’s having birthday tomorrow it says tomorrow but on the one having her birthday on the 10th it says “in one day” even though it’s really two days. The exact same thing happend on the 7th when it showed the person having her birthday on the 9th it said “in one day”

I thought it might’ve been something with the Swedish translation on the mod but I changed to english now and it’s the same issue. Could it be something about the time zone?

EDIT: I just checked the timezone in raspi-config and it’s the right one CET (GMT+1)