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Alfred workflow to generate relative dates in different locales
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Alfred workflow to generate relative dates in different locales

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Relative Dates Alfred Workflow
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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.

![][demo]

- [Download & installation](#download--installation)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Entering dates](#entering-dates)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Output date formats](#output-date-formats)
- [Examples](#examples-1)
- [Bug reports, feedback](#bug-reports-feedback)
- [Licensing, thanks etc.](#licensing-thanks-etc)


Download & installation
-----------------------

Download the workflow from [GitHub][latest], then double-click the `Relative-Dates-XYZ.alfredworkflow` to install it in Alfred.


Usage
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These are the default workflow keywords:

- `date` — Generate a formatted date using the [input format](#input-format).
+ `↩` — Copy date to clipboard
+ `⌘+↩` — Copy date to clipboard and paste into frontmost app
- `datehelp` — Open (this) help file
- `dateformats` — 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


Entering dates
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`(+/-)(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.


### Examples ###

- `0` = `now` = `today` — today's date
- `1d` — 1 day from now
- `7d` = `1w` — 1 week from now
- `-21d` = `-3w` — 3 weeks ago


Output date formats
-------------------

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. | % |


### Examples ###

- `%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


Bug reports, feedback
---------------------

Report any issues or feature requests either on [GitHub][issues] or the [Alfred Forum][forum].


Licensing, thanks etc.
----------------------

This Workflow is released under the [MIT Licence][licence].

It uses the [Alfred-Workflow] and [docopt][docopt] libraries, also both MIT-licensed.

[docopt]: https://github.com/docopt/docopt
[licence]: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
[issues]: https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-relative-dates/issues
[forum]: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/4056-relative-dates/
[demo]: https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-relative-dates/raw/master/demo.gif
[latest]: https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-relative-dates/releases/latest