It occurred to me, as I was writing down 2017.33 on a log that remembering the day may be a challenge. It made me wonder how we remember dates now. Is remembering a number between 1 and 365 going to be difficult? 366 if it’s a leap year, but that’s for another discussion.

Today is Ground Hog day. I know it’s February 2 because it’s Ground Hog day. If it weren’t ground hog day, I’d have to think about last time I was paid (which I don’t much pay attention to date so much as the day). I could calculate that I was paid on Jan 31, but I know it was Tuesday. So, if Tuesday was the 31st and today is two days later, it must be February 2nd.

There’s no way I could (not that anyone could, but just for the fact that I try to recall pertinent information, not information I could easily look up) just know today was Feb 2nd. I don’t pay attention to dates as a matter of memory, but as a scheduling device. My calendar tells me what day it is today and what I have to do today. I wouldn’t know that it’s February 2nd unless I was told, really. I could calculate based on proximate events (like getting paid), but other than that, I would be lost. If you ask me in 5 months what the date is, without a calendar / clock / watch I really wouldn’t know, because I don’t track that. I have tools for that.

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I went to the web timer page today (or, looked at it, I keep it open on one of my screens) to fill in the day of year and realized that I had used the wrong method. I admit, I read the documentation wrong. I verified the android app at this point and confirmed that it’s showing the correct date. The web page was a simple fix, but since I didn’t want to do the math (I have other things to do to, ya know), I looked up what existing solutions were already out there.

The cleanest and most elegant one I found was at http://javascript.about.com/library/bldayyear.htm. They basically wrote an extension to the javascript date library, included here:

Date.prototype.getDOY = function() {
var onejan = new Date(this.getFullYear(),0,1);
return Math.ceil((this – onejan) / 86400000);
}

So, while dates were off by about 30 for one day, all things are well again in the world!

No, but seriously, if you want it, I’ll make it. Android apps cost nothing to make and can be made on Linux, Windows, and Macs. But if you want to build an IOS app you have to buy or rent a Mac. I’m not against doing it, but until there is at least one person in the world who would want the app for IOS (and takes the time to say so to me), I’m not going through the effort to build it.

If you want it, I’ll build it. Until then, we’re sticking with the website and the android app!

We’re in like Flynn!! The app has been published in the google play store and can be found here!

Download it and try it out!

New features to roll out soon.