I'll try the offset, thanks. I'd be happy with a string match on
"20210302*", too though, as that's always the day I'm looking for. Half the
reason I got out of development was to avoid dealing with timezones :)
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 1:18:08 PM UTC-5 Mark S. wrote:
> If you add your offset to the time, then I think you'll get the results
> you want. That is, if you're in Lima (utc -5), you might use
>
> sameday:created[2021030205]
>
> If you live in the other direction, then the math is harder. If you live
> in Yekaterinburg (utc +5), then I assume you would have to use:
>
> sameday:created[2021030119]
>
> It would be really great if there was a "local" suffix so you could
> specify the local time, which is going to make the most sense to anyone
> living far from the international date line. But I think that the idea was
> that you would be saying "sameday" as this other tiddler, which will have
> the appropriate comparison date stamp.
>
> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 9:11:31 AM UTC-8 ja...@baty.net wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing this is related to timezone/display issues I've seen
>> mentioned elsewhere, but there's something I don't understand about the
>> `sameday` operator.
>>
>> Here's the filter I'm working on:
>>
>> ```
>> <$list filter="[sameday:created[20210302]!is[system]!tag[Journal]]" >
>> {{||$:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/body}}
>> </$list>
>> ```
>>
>> I would expect to see tiddlers I created on 2021-03-02 but I only see
>> those I created on 2021-03-01.
>>
>> I'm trying to create a "daily" tiddler that simply transcludes the body
>> of all other tiddlers I created that same day. I can cheat and use
>> *tomorrow's* date in the filter but that feels fragile and that one day
>> TiddlyWiki's date handling will change and they'll all show the wrong
>> tiddlers.
>>
>> Related, is there a way to substitute the created date of the parent
>> tiddler rather than hardcode it? Be nice to not need to have to manually
>> enter the date each time.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
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