Day and Time Format

[Rory Gillies]

I know there must be an easy answer to this but it's eluding me at the moment! I use the Neowx-Material skin and have created a custom Zambretti forecast card using the Weewx Forecast extension on the index.html page which looks like this:

The code that displays the "Issued at" value is:

          <div class="col-3 text-muted font-small indigo-text">
          Issued at <br>
          $forecast.zambretti.issued_ts.format($Extras.Formatting.datetime_today)
          </div>

What I want it to read is "Issued at 09:00 on Monday 15" (using today as an example) but I can't seem to find the correct syntax. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[vince]

https://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#formatting_options

[Rory Gillies]

Thanks Vince, but that's the problem, it doesn't seem to adhere to the normal formatting options. If I change the code to this:

          <div class="col-3 text-muted font-small indigo-text">
          Issued at <br>

          $forecast.zambretti.issued_ts.format($Extras.Formatting.datetime.format("%H:%M %d-%b"))
          </div>

Then the card displays this:

But I want the time to be displayed before the day / date, i.e Issued at 09:00 Tue 16

[gjr80]

I know nothing about Neowx-material, so I have no idea what format $Extras.Formatting.datetime_today specifies, but have you tried $forecast.zambretti.issued_ts.format("%H:%M %d-%b")? I can't see any way that $Extras.Formatting.datetime.format("%H:%M %d-%b") will do what you want.

Note the correct syntax is for .format is  .format(format_string="your_format_string"), but omitting format_string= should work fine in your case.

Gary

[vince]

On Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 2:34:28 AM UTC-7 Rory Gillies wrote:

Thanks Vince, but that's the problem, it doesn't seem to adhere to the normal formatting options. If I change the code to this:

          <div class="col-3 text-muted font-small indigo-text">
          Issued at <br>

          $forecast.zambretti.issued_ts.format($Extras.Formatting.datetime.format("%H:%M %d-%b"))
          </div>

You're going to have to provide all your customizations in order for anybody to hope to recreate your issue.   That means your "custom Zambretti forecast card" at a minimum, probably including anything you did with the forecast extension if that's a separate customization

 

[vince]

I did some fiddling - this works for me...

In the template...

<span class='issued'>Issued at $forecast.zambretti.issued_ts.format("%H:%M") on $forecast.zambretti.issued_ts.format("%a %d")</span>

In the resulting html....

<span class='issued'>Issued at 19:55 on Tue 16</span>

[Rory Gillies]

You're a star Vince, that worked perfectly.

Thanks all for the help and suggestions. I know it may seem insignificant formatting but it's the proper way to display this type of observation.

Rory