Generate relative dates based on a simple input format and your own date formatting parameters (there are some default placeholders you can delete).
Supports multiple locales/languages.
- Download & installation
- Usage
- Entering dates
- Output date formats
- Bug reports, feedback
- Licensing, thanks etc.
Download the workflow from GitHub, then double-click the Relative-Dates-XYZ.alfredworkflow to install it in Alfred.
These are the default workflow keywords:
date— Generate a formatted date using the input format.↩— Copy date to clipboard⌘+↩— Copy date to clipboard and paste into frontmost app
datehelp— Open (this) help filedateformats— View saved date formats⌘+↩— Delete date format
dateadd— Add a new date format↩— Save the date format
datereset— Reset the saved date formats to the defaults
(+/-)<NUM>(w|d|y) where w = week(s), d = day(s) and y = year(s)
You needn't specify a sign: + is understood as the default, so +1d and 1d mean the same thing.
Months are not supported, as it leads to ambiguity: what if today is the 31st, but the target month only has 30 days? Similarly, a year is naively defined as 365 days.
0=now=today— today's date1d— 1 day from now7d=1w— 1 week from now-21d=-3w— 3 weeks ago
The Workflow includes a few defaults for the locales en_US, en_GB and de_DE.
You can specify your own custom date formats using the following symbols, and you can also specify a language (locale) with the format lang=de or lang=de_DE if you want to use dates formatted for a language different to your system's.
| Symbol | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| %a | Weekday as locale’s abbreviated name. | Sun, Mon, ..., Sat (en_US); So, Mo, ..., Sa (de_DE) |
| %A | Weekday as locale’s full name. | Sunday, Monday, ..., Saturday (en_US); Sonntag, Montag, ..., Samstag (de_DE) |
| %w | Weekday as a decimal number, where 0 is Sunday and 6 is Saturday. | 0, 1, ..., 6 |
| %d | Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number. | 01, 02, ..., 31 |
| %b | Month as locale’s abbreviated name. | Jan, Feb, ..., Dec (en_US); Jan, Feb, ..., Dez (de_DE) |
| %B | Month as locale’s full name. | January, February, ..., December (en_US); Januar, Februar, ..., Dezember (de_DE) |
| %m | Month as a zero-padded decimal number. | 01, 02, ..., 12 |
| %y | Year without century as a zero-padded decimal number. | 00, 01, ..., 99 |
| %Y | Year with century as a decimal number. | 1970, 1988, 2001, 2013 |
| %p | Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM. | AM, PM (en_US); am, pm (de_DE) |
| %j | Day of the year as a zero-padded decimal number. | 001, 002, ..., 366 |
| %U | Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a zero padded decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0. | 00, 01, ..., 53 |
| %W | Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0. | 00, 01, ..., 53 |
| %x | Locale’s appropriate date representation. | 08/16/88 (None); 08/16/1988 (en_US); 16.08.1988 (de_DE) |
| %% | A literal '%' character. | % |
%d/%m/%Y— e.g. 21/01/2014%A %B %d %Y— e.g. Wednesday March 12 2014%A %d. %B %Y lang=de— e.g. Mittwoch 12. März 2014
Report any issues or feature requests either on GitHub or the Alfred Forum.
This Workflow is released under the MIT Licence.
It uses the [Alfred-Workflow] and docopt libraries, also both MIT-licensed.