Configuring Relative Time?

Q & A
#1

I selected the calendar style “Time”, however I can’t add dates based on “+3 weeks” or anything like that. Instead I see it’s listed as some sort of very large number. This number is not in the format of [years:]days:hours:minutes:seconds

Example, if my calendar “zero” is at February 15, then February 16 shows as “34:30” and March 15 shows as “696:00.” The only way to choose a new date is to type in the relevant number for that date.

Is there any way to change this format as it will be very tedious to calculate the number of hours (I’m guessing??) that occur between events that take place over several weeks.

#2

Hi,
If you are dealing in those larger time intervals, you would be better off using the Weekly or Daily calendars.

The daily calendar will count Day 1, Day 2 etc. and then allow you to set a time within that day — I.e. “12pm Day 3”

The weekly does the same, but counting in weeks:
“12pm Wednesday, Week 3”

Is there a reason you favour the time options over these two?

Matt

#3

Thank you, I suppose that would make more sense. I read the guide on relative dates and was attempting to try the different options and see which works best. It’s for a mystery, so sometimes it’s things happening on short time scales and others it’s longer, I started with a few closer together, but then wanted to jump ahead to another major event and found myself confused. I assumed if you put in a longer timescale (like “3 weeks”) it would convert to the proper number, or in the case of the day/week options if you put in a shorter timescale it would calculate it. When it did not work that way I was confused as to whether I was doing something wrong. I’ve gone back to look at the guide and realize I should have taken a second look at it before posting as it makes much more sense on reflection.

Thank you again for the quick response.

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