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Title: Night shots expression
Post by: park on December 08, 2008, 09:01:50 am

Hi all,

I'm trying to make an expression that will show me all my night photos. I created a custom field with the following calculated data:

If([Time]>17:00,1,0)

But obviously it doesnt work, since there is no field called "Time" in MC. Does anybody know how to strip the time part out of [Date] field?

Title: Re: Night shots expression
Post by: Matt on December 08, 2008, 09:34:05 am

Currently:
IsEqual(Mid(FormatDate([Date, 0], filename), 9, 2), 17, 6)

In build 13.0.87 and later:
IsEqual(FormatDate([Date, 0], hour), 17, 6)

Title: Re: Night shots expression
Post by: park on December 08, 2008, 09:59:19 am

Thanks Matt.
I've pasted in the latter one and will wait for the next build.

Title: Re: Night shots expression
Post by: marko on December 08, 2008, 12:13:39 pm

ahhh, nice one.
Thank you.

Title: Re: Night shots expression
Post by: park on December 10, 2008, 10:50:23 pm

It's a useful field to have. I recommend putting it in image view's quickie's pane by default.

Title: Re: Night shots expression
Post by: marko on December 11, 2008, 02:09:55 am

less useful perhaps, but just as clever, if you put:
formatdate(now(),dddd dd//MM//yyyy)  padnumber(formatdate(now(),hour),2):padnumber(formatdate(now(),minute),2)
in the player display, it displays the current day, date and time!!

(http://www.theganghut.co.uk/pics/ia/13/dateandtimedisplay.jpg)

-marko.