Notify Pushover time %now% doesn't show am/pm

[Wysocki]

I have a notification in a rule:
Notify Pushover Mailbox Notification: 'Mailbox open at %now%(Mailbox open at 10:19)'
But the result does not indicate am or pm on the time, which can be confusing. Is there any way to indicate it in HE apps? Or is %now% a part of the Pushover product?

[velvetfoot]

I just checked this out in RM and Notifier.
I got another dialog box in RM that asks you about format.
I didn't get anything in Notifier, not that it wasn't there, somewhere.

I personally never use this because Pushover gives you the time.

[Wysocki]

Yeah, I just noticed that it puts the timestamp on the notification so I guess I can live with it. And I did notice the format box preceding the action edit page. I wonder why a few of the formats appear to be duplicates?

[pseudonym]

Can you just check the time then append AM or PM to the notice?

IF (Time between 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM) THEN
    Notify Pushover Mailbox Notification:  'Mailbox open at %now% AM'
ELSE
    Notify Pushover Mailbox Notification:  'Mailbox open at %now% PM'
END-IF

[rlithgow1]

I just use %time% and it works fine. I didn't even know about %now%

[pseudonym]

It looks like duplicates for double digit hours but it's different when they're single digits.

[jshimota]

@pseudonym beat me to it. When formatting output of a date we use format templates.
for 12 hr format it is (i'm using minutes just for readibility and a 9am example):
h:mm - thats no leading zero 9:00
hh:mm - results in 09:00
24 hr format is
H:mm 9:00.
HH:mm - results in 09:00.

See my date/time parser tool both for examples as well as a way to generated your own format.
Here's a hopefully useful table // pattern definitions
dTDayNamePattern = new SimpleDateFormat('EEEE')
dTDayNameText3Pattern = new SimpleDateFormat('EEE')
dTDayOfMonNumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('dd')
dTDayOfMonNumNoLeadPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('d')
dTDayOfWeekNumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('u')
dTDayOfYearNumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('D')
dTDaysInMonthNumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('MMMM')
dTMonthNamePattern = new SimpleDateFormat('MMMM')
dTMonthNameText3Pattern = new SimpleDateFormat('MMM')
dTMonthNumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('MM')
dTMonthNumNoLeadPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('M')
dTYearNum4DigPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('yyyy')
dTYearNum2DigPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('yy')
dTTimeHour12NumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('hh')
dTTimeHour24NumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('HH')
dTTimeHour12NumNoLeadPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('h')
dTTimeHour24NumNoLeadPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('H')
dTTimeMinNumNoLeadPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('m')
dTTimeMinNumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('mm')
dTTZIDPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('zzzz')
dTTZIDText3Pattern = new SimpleDateFormat('z')
dTGMTDiffHoursPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('Z')
dTTimeAntePostUpperPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('a')
dTTimeAntePostLowerPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('a') //drop to lower case using temp value
dTWeekOfMonNumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('W')
dTWeekOfYearNumPattern = new SimpleDateFormat('w')

I"m using SimpleDateFormat because the libraries of HE are based on old 2.4 Groovy and don't support Java's newest libraires (to my knowledge)