Basic - Display Date and Time

[alex.agat]

Hi all,

 

Just downloaded Alfred!

 

I want to create the following / know if its possible.

 

1. Type Alfred shortcut

2. Type 'datetime' as a shortcut

3. The workflow automatically calculates the current datetime (hopefully something I can control the formatting of on the backend) and displays it in the alfred hover window.

4. I have the option of going full screen (if this step though has to happen automatically it would be fine)

 

Any help is appreciated!! Thanks

 

Alex

[alex.agat]

Playing around, even getting it to show in a notification would be acceptable (but not ideal).

 

So far I have:

 

 

on alfred_script(q)

  return "" + (current date) + ""

end alfred_script

 

with a notification displaying the result, but it's blank.

[alex.agat]

Got it for posting to a notification - now its just displaying full screen using command+L

 

--

 

 

set today to current date

set dateAsString to "" as string

set wd to (weekday of today) as string

set m to (month of today) as string

set dm to (day of today) as string

set dm_int to (day of today) as integer

set dm_suffix to "" as string

set y to (year of today) as string

 

if (dm_int = 1) or (dm_int = 21) or (dm_int = 31) then

set dm_suffix to "st"

else if (dm_int = 2) or (dm_int = 22) then

set dm_suffix to "nd"

else if (dm_int = 3) or (dm_int = 23) then

set dm_suffix to "rd"

else

set dm_suffix to "th"

end if

 

set dateAsString to dateAsString & wd

set dateAsString to dateAsString & " "

set dateAsString to dateAsString & m

set dateAsString to dateAsString & " "

set dateAsString to dateAsString & dm

set dateAsString to dateAsString & dm_suffix

set dateAsString to dateAsString & ", "

set dateAsString to dateAsString & y

 

 

return dateAsString

[jdfwarrior]

Got it for posting to a notification - now its just displaying full screen using command+L

 

--

 

 

set today to current date

set dateAsString to "" as string

set wd to (weekday of today) as string

set m to (month of today) as string

set dm to (day of today) as string

set dm_int to (day of today) as integer

set dm_suffix to "" as string

set y to (year of today) as string

 

if (dm_int = 1) or (dm_int = 21) or (dm_int = 31) then

set dm_suffix to "st"

else if (dm_int = 2) or (dm_int = 22) then

set dm_suffix to "nd"

else if (dm_int = 3) or (dm_int = 23) then

set dm_suffix to "rd"

else

set dm_suffix to "th"

end if

 

set dateAsString to dateAsString & wd

set dateAsString to dateAsString & " "

set dateAsString to dateAsString & m

set dateAsString to dateAsString & " "

set dateAsString to dateAsString & dm

set dateAsString to dateAsString & dm_suffix

set dateAsString to dateAsString & ", "

set dateAsString to dateAsString & y

 

 

return dateAsString

 

Add a Large Type item to the end of the workflow instead of the Post Notification item. That should do what you are looking for

[adayzdone]

Hi Alex,

 

You can simplify your script.

return date string of (current date)

[Carlos-Sz]

One of these days I was browsing in full screen and I needed something like that. I thought Alfred already had something like that but I forgot about it. I think you should make a workflow and share with us.

[alex.agat]

One of these days I was browsing in full screen and I needed something like that. I thought Alfred already had something like that but I forgot about it. I think you should make a workflow and share with us.

 

 

Done: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2168-show-date-and-time-in-large-type/

[Carlos-Sz]

Done: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2168-show-date-and-time-in-large-type/

 

Great! 

[adayzdone]

Nice one.

 

Feature request:

Allow an optional +N or -N days.

 

Today is Wednesday, April 24, 2013

date +3 = Wednesday, April 27, 2013

[alex.agat]

Will work on tonight and post

[Tyler Eich]

Nice one.

 

Feature request:

Allow an optional +N or -N days.

 

Today is Wednesday, April 24, 2013

date +3 = Wednesday, April 27, 2013

 

I use Date Calculator by iEnno; it supports adding/subtracting units of time (days, hours, minutes, months, etc.).

 

I hooked the script up to a 'Large Type' output. Here's a download with my edits

[jdfwarrior]

Will work on tonight and post

 

 

I use Date Calculator by iEnno; it supports adding/subtracting units of time (days, hours, minutes, months, etc.).

 

I hooked the script up to a 'Large Type' output. Here's a download with my edits

 

Not sure about other scripting languages but thought I would mention to Tyler since I know he's a PHP nerd like me but, PHP makes doing things like this extremely easy. The PHP function strtotime() will allow you to say current date +/- <some string> and it will return a timestamp to that date/time which could obviously then be converted to a date/time using the date command in PHP. Also, worth noting that, when your dealing with date/time in PHP, it's going to bark at you for not setting the timezone. You could always set a default but then it doesn't work correctly when you distribute to people in other timezones so to fix that, use the PHP exec command to do 

systemsetup -gettimezone

 

to get back a string of the current machines timezone like this:

Time Zone: America/Chicago

 

You could then parse that to grab everything after the Time Zone: and set that string to the new timezone using date_default_timezone_set()

 

Sorry, I got way down a rabbit hole on that one and probably gave a lot more info than anyone cared about.

[Tyler Eich]

Not sure about other scripting languages but thought I would mention to Tyler since I know he's a PHP nerd like me but, PHP makes doing things like this extremely easy. The PHP function strtotime() will allow you to say current date +/- <some string> and it will return a timestamp to that date/time which could obviously then be converted to a date/time using the date command in PHP. Also, worth noting that, when your dealing with date/time in PHP, it's going to bark at you for not setting the timezone. You could always set a default but then it doesn't work correctly when you distribute to people in other timezones so to fix that, use the PHP exec command to do 

systemsetup -gettimezone

 

to get back a string of the current machines timezone like this:

Time Zone: America/Chicago

 

You could then parse that to grab everything after the Time Zone: and set that string to the new timezone using date_default_timezone_set()

 

Sorry, I got way down a rabbit hole on that one and probably gave a lot more info than anyone cared about.

 

I had never seen strtotime() before (looks awesome); thanks for that 

 

It should be noted, though, that every time I tried to use the systemsetup -gettimezone command (both from bash and php exec()), I was denied because my user account does not have administrator access  . I know I could use sudo, but I don't want to type Administrator creds just to know the date.

[adayzdone]

I use Date Calculator by iEnno; it supports adding/subtracting units of time (days, hours, minutes, months, etc.).

 

I hooked the script up to a 'Large Type' output. Here's a download with my edits

 

Thanks Tyler. I thought the addition might be a cool feature for the OP to incorporate in his first workflow.  In AppleScript you can use:

 

set newDate to (current date) + 1 * days

[alex.agat]

Even though I am certainly more comfortable in PHP, since I started my original script in AppleScript I thought why not continue down that path.

I have updated my original script to include the +num and -num functionality requested above.

 

Here ya go: http://cl.ly/3w0O0p3Q3j0X

Edited April 28, 2013 by alex.agat

[adayzdone]

Nice! Thanks.