Question about time math

Coming over from Zooper, which I knew really well. KWGT Pro is so much better than Zooper, and I'm really having fun using it.

I'm trying to display the time until the next alarm as h:mm, but I can't figure out what math to use to get that. I am currently using $df(si(alarmd)) which works fine, but isn't exactly what I want.

What I'd really like is: If it's more than one day until the next alarm, display in a text field: "'d' days and 'h' hours until next alarm", otherwise, display "(h:mm)".

I know this is probably pretty basic, but I'd appreciate a hand (no time-pun intended).

thanks

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So, if you need to measure time to an even (any date event) you can use TF function (TF: Format a time span (es "3 hours ago")), for example, you can do $tf(si(alarmd))$ for the "automatic" mode or use $tf(si(alarmd), "D' days 'h' hours and 'm' minutes'")$ to display details (i am using single hypens ' to escape normal text inside a date formula, this is valid also in DF, this is to avoid writing "$tf(si(alarmd), D)$ days $tf(si(alarmd), h)$ hours and $tf(si(alarmd), m)$ minutes"

TF() is pretty smart, so if you pass a date then it will print time relative to now (so "in 10 hours" or "10 hours ago") while if you pass a number of seconds it will just parse absolute time (es "10 hours"). Let me give some example:

  • Time to / from a date $tf(si(alarmd))$ will write like "in 5 hours"
  • Delta between 2 dates so $tf(ai(nsunrise) - ai(sunset))$ will parse the time between "next sunrise" and "today sunset" and write something like "8 hours" which is the duration of the "night" today
  • $tf(360)$ will write "6 minutes"

Thanks for all the help, Frank!

in case anyone is interested, here's the solution I came up with. I'm sure it could be shortened a bit, but it should be quite clear what is going on.

What I wanted was for the alarm text field to display, for example: "Next alarm - 2d 4h" if the alarm is more than a day away. If the alarm is less than a day away, but more than an hour away, I wanted "Next alarm - xh:ym". And, if the alarm is less than an hour away, I wanted "Next Alarm - xm"

Here is the formula I came up with:

$if(tf(si(alarmd), "D")>0,tf(si(alarmd), "Next alar'm' • D'd 'h'h"))$$if(tf(si(alarmd), "D")<=0&tf(si(alarmd), "H")>0,tf(si(alarmd), "Next alar'm' • H'h':mm'm"))$$if(tf(si(alarmd), "D")<=0&tf(si(alarmd), "H")<=0,tf(si(alarmd), "Next alar'm' • m'm"))$

( I don't use if-then statements just to simplify).

Thanks to Frank for the help in getting me on the right track!

I think what you is after is like this. Just replace my danish, it will only print if time is less than a day. Hope it helps :)

$if(si(alarmon)=1&tf(si(alarmd),"D")<1,"Alarm kl. "+df("hh:mm", si(alarmd))+" "+tf(si(alarmd)))$