how to use a dateline.mc file in my watch face?

Hey, I am trying to make a date line that will always show the date in English ignoring whatever the system language is. I didn't find any 'magic' solution so I tried to use the same method that was used in Crystal's watch face- strings of the date using DateLine.mc file in the source. I customized it a bit so it will be customized to what I want in it. The current situation is that I have the date string I want in the DateLine.mc file and I want to use the View.mc to use dc.drawText(x ,y ,font , dateString, justification) but because those are different files I can't connect those two. How do I make it happen?

BTW if there's another way that is more simple to get the date in English ignoring whatever the system language is, please let me know!

Thank you for everyone in advance!

0 Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 4 years ago

hi,

there is an easy way if you always want date in English:

using Toybox.Time.Gregorian as Date;

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var date = Date.info(Time.now(), 0);

var DoW = ["","SUN","MON","TUE","WED","THU","FRI",SAT"];

var DoW = DoW[date.day_of_week];

and you can do the same thing for Months.

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

var date = Date.info(Time.now(), Time.FORMAT_SHORT);

might cost a couple bytes, but makes it a bit clearer.

but yes, a simple array does the trick

and your whole date could be

DoW[date.day_of_week]+" "+date.month+"-"+date.day

"WED 10-6"

0 Kfir Eliyahu over 4 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

Hey thank you for answering, I've tried a very similar one but it didn't work out for me. Here's the code:

    var date = Date.info(Time.now(), Time.FORMAT_SHORT);
    var DoW = ["","SUN","MON","TUE","WED","THU","FRI","SAT"];
    var DoW = DoW[date.day_of_week];
	var M =["","JAN","FEB","MAR","APR","MAY","JUN","JUL","AUG","SEP","OCT","NOV","DEC"];
	var M = M[date.month];
    var dateString = DoW+" "+M+" "date.day;

I've got an error for mismatched input 'date' expecting {',', ';'} in the dateString line

0 Kfir Eliyahu over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Hey jim, I tried to make it also in the way you wrote and it also showed me the error for mismatched input 'date' expecting {',', ';'} in the dateString line. I did the same for month because I wanted to get the month as a 3 character word and not a number.

0 Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 4 years ago in reply to Kfir Eliyahu

var dateString = DoW+" "+M+" "+date.day;

you missed to put a +

0 Kfir Eliyahu over 4 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

Oh wow thank you I don't know how I've missed it. Now for some reason it says Undefined symbol "Date" detected in the first var date line. I am using Toybox.Time.Gregorian so I don't know why I am getting this error.

EDIT: nevermind I was just needed to change it to Gregorian instead of the word Date. TY Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) and jim_m_58 for the help!