[KWGT] When does a Text field update using Date Format (just Month, day and year - $df(MMM d)$, $df(yyyy)$

I have some text fields that display the Date $df(MMM d)$, $df(yyyy)$ for different time zones, however it does not seem to be updating accurately. KWGT is not battery optimized, and the Time display is always accurate. Here is a screenshot of the widget itself (top half), note that China should be Sep 3, 2024. If I edit the widget (bottom half), you can see that the date for China is correct. Sometime later, the date in the widget will update itself and be correct. The times in both images are always correct.

My guess is that Text fields using Dates are only updating every hour or more? Is there something I can do to get them to update more frequently?

Go to KWGT’s app settings >> Advanced options >> Update mode. Set this to Fast to check if this has something to do with the widget refresh rate.

Unfortunately it doesn’t - I set it to fast, and for the past 45 minutes have been monitoring it (Paris should have been changed to Oct 11, 2024 18 minutes before this screenshot).

Plus. the times themselves have always updated perfectly… on the minute.

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Do you have each line in a sepeterate layer with a different time zone?
Or do you use df(MMM d, a6h) to add the extra hours to the date?

Each line is a separate set of containers, but each line has its own timezone.

The date is displayed using: $df(MMM d)$, $df(yyyy)$

The time is in a separate Text Field… I did this because I couldn’t get the alignment I wanted if the Date and Time entries were together in one Text Field.

There are 3 ways (that I know of) to create time for a timezone:

  1. Set the timezone in a Komponent
  2. Set the timezone in a layer (overlay or stack)
  3. Set the time to another timezone by manually setting the timedifference (which is what I meant by using the a6h (6 is a random number of hours; r6h also works, if you need it)

I’m assuming you mean you used 1?
Could you try 2 and 3 to see if that makes a difference?

Ofcourse it should work with the timezones in the komponents, but maybe you can find a workaround and at least we might be a bit closer to determining where the problem/bug exactly is.

Hi there,

As far as I know, KWGT will update the time every minute (the longest interval).

You can found the settings in:

Settings ➞ Advanced Options ➞ Update mode

I hope this would help.
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