Remind Me has trouble with PM hours

[brechtm]

Remind Me will always create tasks in the AM. If I enter "remind me something at 5pm" or "remind me something else at 17", it will create a reminder due 5 AM.

[brechtm]

I suspect this is because I'm using the 24-hour time format. Changing the date format string in plugin.py to +%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S (from +%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p) fixes things for me.

[brechtm]

The following might work regardless of the 24-hour setting (replaces the run function in plugin.py:

def run(parsed):
    from applescript import asrun
    get_date = ''
    set_date = ''
    if '@date' in parsed:
      get_date = 'set theDueDate to (date "Thursday 1 January 1970 00:00:00") + (time to GMT) + {0}'.format(parsed['@date']['timestamp'])
      set_date = "set due date of newReminder to theDueDate"
    script = """{0}

    tell application "Reminders"
        set newReminder to make new reminder
        set name of newReminder to "{1}"
      {2}
        display notification "Created reminder" with title "Flashlight"
    end tell

    """.format(get_date, parsed['~message'], set_date)
    print script
    asrun(script)

I'm not 100% confident that this will work in all timezones and with daylight savings though. And the date calculation should be encapsulated into a function, but my AppleScript knowledge is lacking.

[nate-parrott]

Ugh, Applescript.....

You can submit a pull request to try to fix this if you'd like — ultimately, I think the best solution is to find some way to avoid applescript (probably by using EventKit, although it's not working perfectly via PyObjc)