REQ: Show trigger time on timer 'window'.

[bs27975]

Thank you for the excellent enhancements you have been making.

I have cmd scripts to quickly create timers, such as this one for every 2h:

Could the 'trigger time' be shown in the lower right (or something), much like the timer title is shown just above the 'time to trigger' time display? Here, e.g. '8;30:02 pm'.

Depending upon the duration, sometimes it is more useful to know when to return to something, than knowing how long until it happens. [The program has no way to know which is which, when. Thus this request.]

[i2van]

You can specify time in the command line for the title from batch or cmd as follows (depends from your system locale):

hourglass -t "Timer 1 %DATE% %TIME:~0,8%" 10

%TIME:~0,8% takes first 8 symbols, which are hh:mm:ss in my locale.

[bs27975]

I understand that. I frequently use the desired time on the command line already. Other times the duration (on the command line).

This is about displaying the 'trigger time', not specifying it.

[i2van]

US Locale:

[bs27975]

Yes, that is the sort of thing I meant.

However, consider the inevitable breaking down of the display into sections:
<Left> <Middle> <Right> <-- Header
<Left> <Middle> <Right> <-- Main
<Left> <Middle> <Right> <-- Footer

The 'trigger' time could go in the footer-right, leaving all else as currently displayed.
[And setting the frame (work) for future ... enhancements.]

Granted / agreed, the display gets more complex when the timer is to go off after the next midnight.
Thus footer left could be 'tomorrow', 'tuesday, and so on.

I had not considered the impact of times past next midnight, beyond a date, and appreciate the idea of 'tomorrow', or 'Tuesday'. I don't envy you the design decisions you must choose.

[i2van]

Implemented in 1.15.30

The Advanced options / Show trigger time timer window context menu option shows the trigger time in the timer window and in the notification area context menu. The command-line option is --show-trigger-time, -st, /st