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    • mhaberler
      mhaberler | Premium last edited by

      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

      Michael

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      • rittels
        rittels Code contributor @mhaberler | Premium last edited by

        @mhaberler @ivo @marekd

        I think it is a good idea. Setting the relative time will probably have to be done manually though.

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        • marekd
          marekd Administrator last edited by

          @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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          • mhaberler
            mhaberler @marekd | Premium last edited by

            @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

            Michael

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            • mhaberler
              mhaberler @mhaberler | Premium last edited by

              oh, and embeds of course

              Michael

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