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jobisoft / quicktext

An extension for Thunderbird that lets you create templates that can be easily inserted into your own emails.
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Input date as ISO8601 #389

Open LukasCBossert opened 10 months ago

LukasCBossert commented 10 months ago

I am currently diving into quicktext and like a lot! Thanks for maintaining and developing it! My usecase makes it necessary to insert a date in the form of YYYY-MM-DD. I couldn’t find this as an option, only [[DATE=long]] .

I guess this could be done using a script, but I have no clue about javascript.

LukasCBossert commented 10 months ago

Ok, after I send this issue I had the enlightment and ask chatGPT for help:

  const currentDate = new Date();
  const year = currentDate.getFullYear();
  const month = (currentDate.getMonth() + 1).toString().padStart(2, '0');
  const day = currentDate.getDate().toString().padStart(2, '0');

  const isoDate = `${year}-${month}-${day}`;
  return isoDate;

this creates YYYY-MM-DD of the current day. Proof that quicktext ist easy to use also for non-programmers.