How should I specify timezones for Word Clock in Bosun config?
I think there was some parameter for that but I can't find reference in docs for that.
The configuration parameter for the worldclock links is timeAndDate. Note this ONLY controls the links generated when displaying datetimes and doesn't control Bosun's timezone, which is hardcoded to UTC.
In the code:
TimeAndDate []int // timeanddate.com cities list
So our config file looks like:
timeAndDate = 202,75,179,136
Which adds Portland, Denver, New York, and London to the datetime links generated in alerts:
See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter-about.html for how to get a list of Cities, and then you will find the p_=### codes in the URL that you can add to your Bosun config.
I've created an issue in the github issue tracker to get this fixed.
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Trying to get the Title for "Blood Oath" from 1990 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100414/ .In this example am using Jupyter, but it works the same in my .py program:
movie = ia.get_movie('0100414')
movie
<Movie id:0100414[http] title:_Prisoners of the Sun (1990)_>
Am I doing something wrong? This seems to be the 'USA aka' title. I do know how to get the AKA titles back via the API, but just puzzled as to why it's returning this one. On the IMDB web page "Blood Oath" is listed - under the AKA section - as the "(original title)". Thank you.
What you do is correct.
IMDbPY takes the movie title from the value of a meta tag with property set to "og:title". So, what's considered the title of a movie depends on the decisions made by IMDb.
You can also use "original title" key, that is taken from what it's actually shown to the reader of the web page. This, however, is even more subject to change since it's usually shown in the language guessed by the IMDb web servers using the language set by a registered user, the settings of your browser or by geolocation of the IP.
So, for example, for that title I get "Blood Oath" via browser since my browser is set to English and "Giuramento di sangue (1990)" if I access movie['original title'] (geolocation of my IP, I guess)
To conclude, if you really need another title, you may get the whole list this way:
ia.update(movie, 'release info')
print(movie.get('akas from release info'))
You will get a list that you can parse looking for a string ending in '(original title)'
(disclaimer: I'm one of the main authors of IMDbPY)
It seems that youtube are now using ID's for their channels instead of names (part of the V3 api)
However it seems that the embedded iframe playlist player cannot handle these channel ID's
example channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpAOGs57EWRvOPXQhnYHpow
then ID is UCpAOGs57EWRvOPXQhnYHpow
Now try to load this
http://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=user_uploads&list=UCpAOGs57EWRvOPXQhnYHpow
Can anyone shine a light on this issue ? Or is there some hidden username ?
I also placed this question at the gdata-issues website http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=6463
The issue here is that a channel is not a playlist; channels can have multiple playlists, yet the listType parameter is designed to look for an actual playlist info object. The documented way around this is to use the data API and call the channel endpoint, looking at the contentDetails part:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=contentDetails&id=UCuo5NTU3pmtPejmlzjCgwdw&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
The result will give you all of the feeds associated with that channel that you can choose from:
"contentDetails": {
"relatedPlaylists": {
"uploads": "UUuo5NTU3pmtPejmlzjCgwdw"
}
}
If available (sometimes with oAuth), there could also be "watch later" lists, "likes" lists, etc.
This may seem like a lot of overhead. In the short term, though, it can be noted that the different feeds are programmatically named; so, for example, if my user channel begins with UC and then a long string, that UC stands for 'user channel' -- and the uploads feed would begin with 'UU' (user uploads) and then have the rest of the same long string. (you'd also have 'LL' for the likes list, 'WL' for the watch later list, 'HL' for the history list, 'FL' for the favorites list, etc. This is NOT documented, and so there's no guarantee that such a naming convention will perpetuate. But at least for now, you could change your ID string from beginning with UC to beginning with UU, like this:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=user_uploads&list=UUpAOGs57EWRvOPXQhnYHpow
And it embeds nicely.
Just to inform on current state of things -- the change suggested by jlmcdonald doesn't work anymore, but you can still get a proper embed link via videoseries (with the same UC to UU change). I.o.w. link like
http://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=UUpAOGs57EWRvOPXQhnYHpow
works as of at the moment of writing this.
When I create or update record on sails it write this at updateAt:
updatedAt: 2014-07-06T15:00:00.000Z
but I'm in GMT+2 hours (in this season) and update are performed at 16:00.
I have the same problem with all datetime fields declared in my models.
How can I set the right timezone on Sails (or eventually Express) ?
The way I handled the problem after hours of research :
Put
process.env.TZ = 'UTC'; //whatever timezone you want
in config/bootstrap.js
I solved the problem， you should setting the MySql options file to change timezone to UTC
in the config/connections.js
setting at this
devMysqlServer: {
adapter: 'sails-mysql',
host: '127.0.0.1',
user: 'root',
password: '***',
database: '**',
timezone: 'utc'
},
Trying to solve your problem by setting the timezone on your server is a bit short-sighted. What if you move? Or someone in a different country accesses your application? The important thing is that the timestamps in your database have a timezone encoded in them, so that you can translate to the correct time on the front end. That is, if you do:
new Date('2014-07-06T15:00:00.000Z')
in your browser console, you should see it display the correct date and time for wherever you are. Sails automatically encodes this timestamp for you with the default updatedAt and createdAt fields; just make sure you always use a timezone when saving any custom timestamps to the database, and you should be fine!
The best architecture planning here, IMO, is to continue using Sails.js isoDate formatting. When you're user's load your website/app the isoDate will be converted to their client/browser timezone which is usually set at the OS level.
Here's an example you can test this out with. Open a browser console and run new Date().toISOString() and look at the time it sets. It's going to be based of off the spec for isoDate 8601 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toISOString).
Now, change your system time to a different time zone or simply change your hour on the time and save (you shouldn't have to reload if you're using chrome console). Run your command in the console again new Date().toISOString() and you'll get an adjusted time appropriate to the time you just changed.
If you'd like to continue on proving to yourself the time Sails.js is appropriate to use, use Moment.js on an isoDate that is stored in your database (created by waterline ORM) like so moment("2016-02-05T22:36:48.800Z").fromNow() and you'll notice the time is relative to your system time.
I've come to grips with not setting a timezone at the app level (I see why the sails authors did it that way), however I've been having a rough time performing a simple date match query. I'd assume that if you create a record using the default blueprint methods (this one containing an extra datetime field over the defaults), passing in a date, that you'd be able to pass in the same date in a get query and get the same record.
For example, let's say the datetime field is called "specialdate". If I create a new record through the api with "specialdate" equaling "06-09-2014" (ignoring time), I haven't been able to run a find query in which I can pass in "06-09-2014" and get that record back. Greater than queries work fine (if I do a find for a date greater than that). I'm sure it's a timezone offset thing, but haven't been able to come up with a solution.
I am writing an app to use GPS coordinates obtained by the cell phone itself to retrieve the building name of that location.
For example, if I use this http URL to request with Google Place API:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=40.805112,-73.960349&radius=10&sensor=false&key="YourKey"
I can only get the street name of this coordinate through this.
But if I type "40.805112,-73.960349" in maps.google.com. I can get the exact building name. SO I was wondering how can I use Google Map API to obtain the building name I want.
Thank you very much about this!!!
The first result in the request you provided contains "name" : "Church of Notre Dame", isn't this what you are looking for?
A better request if you are only interested in the place name at this location would be to use the rankby=distance parameter instead or radius and to filter by type=establishment:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=40.805112,-73.960349&rankby=distance&types=establishment&sensor=false&key=YOUR_API_KEY
This would return the closest place at the given location.
I am unclear about the exact format to have a link on a website that will add a single event to a users Google calendar. I see that eventbrite has done it here but I would love some clear specs or links in the right direction
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1289487893
http://screencast.com/t/6vvh1khS
Here's an example link you can use to see the format:
https://www.google.com/calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE&text=Your+Event+Name&dates=20140127T224000Z/20140320T221500Z&details=For+details,+link+here:+http://www.example.com&location=Waldorf+Astoria,+301+Park+Ave+,+New+York,+NY+10022&sf=true&output=xml
Note the key query parameters:
text
dates
details
location
Here's another example (taken from http://wordpress.org/support/topic/direct-link-to-add-specific-google-calendar-event):
<a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/render?
action=TEMPLATE
&text=[event-title]
&dates=[start-custom format='Ymd\\THi00\\Z']/[end-custom format='Ymd\\THi00\\Z']
&details=[description]
&location=[location]
&trp=false
&sprop=
&sprop=name:"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Add to my calendar</a>
Here's a form which will help you construct such a link if you want (mentioned in earlier answers):
https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/3033039
Edit: This link no longer gives you a form you can use
There is a comprehensive doc for google calendar and other calendar services: https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/add-event-to-calendar-docs/blob/master/services/google.md
An example of working link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE&text=Bithday&dates=20201231T193000Z/20201231T223000Z&details=With%20clowns%20and%20stuff&location=North%20Pole
I've also been successful with this URL structure:
Base URL:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/eventedit?
And let's say this is my event details:
Title: Event Title
Description: Example of some description. See more at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10488831/link-to-add-to-google-calendar
Location: 123 Some Place
Date: February 22, 2020
Start Time: 10:00am
End Time: 11:30am
Timezone: America/New York (GMT -5)
I'd convert my details into these parameters (URL encoded):
text=Event%20Title
details=Example%20of%20some%20description.%20See%20more%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F10488831%2Flink-to-add-to-google-calendar
location=123%20Some%20Place%2C%20City
dates=20200222T100000/20200222T113000
ctz=America%2FNew_York
Example link:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/eventedit?text=Event%20Title&details=Example%20of%20some%20description.%20See%20more%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F10488831%2Flink-to-add-to-google-calendar&location=123%20Some%20Place%2C%20City&dates=20200222T100000/20200222T113000&ctz=America%2FNew_York
Please note that since I've specified a timezone with the "ctz" parameter, I used the local times for the start and end dates. Alternatively, you can use UTC dates and exclude the timezone parameter, like this:
dates=20200222T150000Z/20200222T163000Z
Example link:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/eventedit?text=Event%20Title&details=Example%20of%20some%20description.%20See%20more%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F10488831%2Flink-to-add-to-google-calendar&location=123%20Some%20Place%2C%20City&dates=20200222T150000Z/20200222T163000Z
For the next person Googling this topic, I've written a small NPM package to make it simple to generate Google Calendar URLs. It includes TypeScript type definitions, for those who need that. Hope it helps!
https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-calendar-url
Or use this link. It would generate the link from the input fields