Custom date/time formats for snippets

[joehave]

I frequently use a specific date format that's not able to be achieved using the dynamic placeholders for snippets (without changing my system date formatting) :

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/dynamic-placeholders/

 

Specifically, I prefer to have yymmdd as a snippet (it's a compliant file name without punctuation and sorts naturally).

 

When making sure I wasn't filing a duplicate, I came across a different but related request, just for the year:

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1021-snippet-year-placeholder/?hl=%2Bdate+%2Bsnippet

 

So my request is that of enabling more granular date formatting... perhaps breaking it into components such that I might be able to use:

{year:small}{month:small}{day:small}

 

Actual tag names aren't as important as the functionality, so something already known and documented would be more flexible, such as Python's strftime's spec:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

 

ie:

{date:'%y%m%d'}

 

That would make me so happy.

 

 

[anaderi]

+1

[Vero]

I frequently use a specific date format that's not able to be achieved using the dynamic placeholders for snippets (without changing my system date formatting) :

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/dynamic-placeholders/

 

Specifically, I prefer to have yymmdd as a snippet (it's a compliant file name without punctuation and sorts naturally).

 

When making sure I wasn't filing a duplicate, I came across a different but related request, just for the year:

http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1021-snippet-year-placeholder/?hl=%2Bdate+%2Bsnippet

 

So my request is that of enabling more granular date formatting... perhaps breaking it into components such that I might be able to use:

{year:small}{month:small}{day:small}

 

Actual tag names aren't as important as the functionality, so something already known and documented would be more flexible, such as Python's strftime's spec:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

 

ie:

{date:'%y%m%d'}

 

That would make me so happy.

 

 

In Alfred 3, you'll be able to use various date formats, e.g. {date:dd/MM/yy}

 

We'll provide more details in the Alfred 3 documentation very soon!

 

Cheers,

Vero

[joehave]

{date:YYMMdd} totally worked (in v3 BETA).

 

As promised: 

 

Thank you very much!

[slyfox]

Is there a way to achieve "March 28" rather than "March 28, 2017" date snippet? I just need the full name of the month without the year.

[joehave]

Sure can, check out the help document, specifically the Unicode LDML formats for dates, which is a little verbose, so I'll just give you the fish:

{date:MMMM d}

[slyfox]

3 hours ago, joehave said:

Sure can, check out the help document, specifically the Unicode LDML formats for dates, which is a little verbose, so I'll just give you the fish:

{date:MMMM d}

 

 

That works. Thank you.