windy feature proposal: relative time in URL
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a common question: what is the weather tomorrow/day after tomorrow/mornings/evenings in location X?
Since it's a common question, I'd create a bookmark and click the bookmark for an answer. However, windy does not allow you to do that since it uses absolute date and time:
https://www.windy.com/?2020-08-20-06,48.651,14.477,11,m:e0dagy0
so one can ask for the weather on Aug 20, 2020 mornings in Vissy Brod, but not for 'tomorrow's weather in Vissy Brod' - and link to that
proposal: enable relative time URL's in windy.
Chris' traj plugin does exactly that: it supports either absolute date/time or relative date/time like so (see the Relative day selector in the 'Create URL' submenu)absolute time: https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-traj?time=2020-08-20T06:00&lat=48.6128&lon=14.3222&duration=120&airspaces=&start=true
relative time: https://www.windy.com/plugins/windy-plugin-traj?time=1T06:00&lat=48.6128&lon=14.3222&duration=120&airspaces=&start=true
so time=0T18:00 means today, 18:00 UTC and 2T06:00 UTC means day after tomorrow, 6:00 UTC
The time-relative links are perfect for bookmarking - give it a try in Windy traj, bookmark some and play with them. You'll see how useful they are.
Can I ask you to look into this?
best regards
Michael
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I think it is a good idea. Setting the relative time will probably have to be done manually though.
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@mhaberler @rittels I think this is a great idea. We will try to add this feature to some future release. Thank you for your suggestion!
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@marekd I really appreciate you're listening
come to think of it, could well be this will create kind of an aftermarket - like collections of reusable links for a certain purpose; also great to add to websites
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oh, and embeds of course
