Date OR Time, repeating Dates

[IceBadger]

Hey!

It would be nice when setting a Date/Time value, and in Date/Time conditionals, to only use a Date or only use a Time, and be able to choose one or more days of the week, seperate or together.

This would allow setting a variable to the current time, and use an if conditional to see if the time is more or less than 11:00, that way a TTS response could be tailored depending on if it's Morning, Noon, Afternoon, Day, Evening, Night
Being able to check which day of the week it is would also be nice, checking if its a weekend or not for example.

An example TTS response could be:
"Have a good Saturday evening!"

Makes it a bit more human in responses than saying the current time.
With repeatable dates one could set up certain holidays, birthday(s) or other events the same way.

At the moment it seems like Date and Time is tied, so anything would only work that one time, that one day.

[Pfeil]

If you're looking for a "workaround", there are a number of tokens, found under "Text (and Text-To-Speech) Tokens" in the documentation, to format time:

to see if the time is more or less than 11:00, that way a TTS response could be tailored depending on if it's Morning, Noon, Afternoon, Day, Evening, Night

Code: [Select]

Begin Text Compare : [{EXP:{TIMEHOUR24} < 11 AND {TIMEHOUR24} > 4}] Equals '1'
    Say, 'Good morning.'
Else If Text Compare : [{EXP:{TIMEHOUR24} < 16 AND {TIMEHOUR24} > 11}] Equals '1'
    Say, 'Jubilant Noon.'
Else If Text Compare : [{EXP:{TIMEHOUR24} < 23 AND {TIMEHOUR24} > 16}] Equals '1'
    Say, 'Ecstatic Evening.'
Else
    Say, 'You should be sleeping right now, but who am I to judge.'
End Condition


Being able to check which day of the week it is would also be nice, checking if its a weekend or not for example.

Code: [Select]

Begin Text Compare : [{EXP:'{DATEDAYOFWEEK}' = 'Saturday' OR '{DATEDAYOFWEEK}' = 'Sunday'}] Equals '1'
    Say, 'It's Weekend, hurray!'
Else
    Say, 'It's a weekday. Oh joy.'
End Condition


With repeatable dates one could set up certain holidays, birthday(s) or other events the same way.

Code: [Select]

Begin Text Compare : [{DATE}] Equals 'june 2, 2016'
    Say, 'I'm sure it's someone's birthday today, so happy birthday to them.'
End Condition

Note that {DATEDAYOFWEEK} and {DATE} change with your regional settings, so I'd recommend using

Code: [Select]

Write '[Blue] {DATE} - {DATEDAYOFWEEK}' to log
To check your local formatting.

[Gary]

Pfeil: Master of EXP!!!

[Pfeil]

[Gary]

LOL

[Slan]

If you're looking for a "workaround", there are a number of tokens, found under "Text (and Text-To-Speech) Tokens" in the documentation, to format time:

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This is so succint, I have grabbed it and stuffed it into a profile for when I know I will need it later and can't find it. Kudos Pfeil!

[IceBadger]

Just had some time to test it out (was setting up a new PC) and it works!

Thank you soooo much Pfeil!

[Pfeil]