Add a button to show the time between 2 or more events

Feature Requests
#1

I would love if I could select any 2 events in my timeline (in any view) and have a button or hotkey I could press to have it show me the time difference between them. For example:

  • Event 1: January 1, 2024
  • Event 2: August 23, 2024

I click the button and it shows me that there’s a difference of 234 days.

Example 2:

  • Event 1: January 1, 2005
  • Event 2: August 23, 2024

I click the button and it shows me that there’s a difference of 19 years, 7 months, and 23 days including the end date. ( 7,175 days)

Some other notes:

  • It should include hours and minutes and seconds if those are tracked by the events.
  • If more than 2 events are selected it would be nice if it showed the time between events 1 and 2 and also the difference between 2 and 3, and so on, in a chain.
  • All this should apply to a custom, bespoke calendar.

Thank you for considering!

#2

Do you see this as an additional option to the regular Alt-Shift-drag operation as described here?

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#3

I am thinking of another side to this problem: I like adding constraints on events (event A happens 9 weeks before event B), but I am afraid that after much editing and moving some important relationships will have changed. I am therefore thinking of exporting the timeline to a CSV and then have a Python script doing some basic sanity checks. This could be archived by spread sheet formulas too. I mention it as an idea, not a replacement for the functionality you speak of.

#4

Do you see this as an additional option to the regular Alt-Shift-drag operation as described here ?

I’d forgotten about this! Thanks. That might work as a solution for now. But I have a pretty extensive timeline and dragging between 2 very far-distant events may not always be feasible. And I’m also not sure if I want to create a Relationship between 2 events just to check their distance.

But I appreciate the nudge on this existing feature!