Dashboard Calendar Widget - Allow changing "Start of Week" day & Language

[暁のルナ]

This is two related things in one:

1. In the Activity tab of my profile, the month title format & days of the week appear in Japanese (my system/profile language). I’d like to see this extended to the dashboard:

2. I start my calendars on Sunday (which is also the first day of the week in the US and Japan). It throws me off that the days on the widget are “in the wrong position” (since it starts with Monday), and I’d like to have a setting in my profile to start the widget on Sunday. Why this matters? Example: I updated my book progress via the dashboard, and expected to see that reflected in the widget. I didn’t see it, so I reloaded, and still didn’t see it… pause for a sec to realize that Wednesday is one position early, and it did actually update.

[shitsurei]

Not sure this is the place to pile on or if I should make a second request, but an option to end the day at a given time would be nice too.. I’m loving getting the calendar automatically filled in, but I routinely read after midnight, which means I get stamped for the next day, even though to me who has not gone to bed yet it doesn’t feel like I’ve read that next day. I’d love to be able to specify what time the day rolls over (or even just have a night owl 4 or 5 am toggle, that would also be fine ).

[Megumin]

@shitsurei

Not sure this is the place to pile on or if I should make a second request, but an option to end the day at a given time would be nice too..

It’s probably somewhat related to setting timezones per user:

Set custom timezones per user

Merging these two, as they are basically the same issue causing different problems.

There’s also a catch-all which could be suggested there too:

General Activity Logging

Description of your request or bug report: Allow users to add to their stats in a flexible way, so that things not supported in Natively could be tracked. Fields in this data type: type of action (Reading, Speaking, Watching, Listening… etc) one line description of activity (iTalki Lesson, HelloTalk, NHK News… etc) type of stat to track (pgs, minutes etc) stat value (how much you did.. ie. the amount of pages) (optional) amount of time (optional) note Ideally, we’d have some quick shortcuts…

In any case, I think it’s not the first time it’s been brought.

[shitsurei]

Ah yes, mine is probably most related to the custom time zones (and absolute worst case my problem could be solved by just putting myself in a timezone -4 from where I live) Although I don’t think one exists since I believe Hawaii is the last time zone and they’re -3 from me..but still

[mic]

Hawaii is in time zone UTC-10:00. But there are islands further west that use UTC-11:00 or even UTC-12:00, cf. Time zone - Wikipedia

BTW: I always add book pages or episodes on the next day, as I only want to do it once and never know, whether the current session is the last if the day hasn’t changed yet. So with the new dashboard auto-update all my entries are off by one day.

[暁のルナ]

Fwiw, progress update has the date field now, so you can put it to the previous day. @shitsurei this would work in your case too I think

[mic]

Thank you, but this looks like too much work every day, as long as the system cannot set the day automatically one day back.

I know that the activity is off by one day, that’s good enough for me for now.

[shitsurei]

I do use that now but then it sets it at the beginning of the previous day and then my updates are not in order. Which I know is a weird thing to care about but I do somehow

[暁のルナ]

Yeah fair enough. I also just leave it at the default, if I’m updating the next day… Tho I like to update whenever I’ve read a significant amount. It’s a nice little dopamine hit for me

@shitsurei

I do use that now but then it sets it at the beginning of the previous day and then my updates are not in order.

Ahh right. This is another one of those things I went “meh, does this level of granularity really matter?”. For me the answer was no.

[eefara]

@shitsurei

I do use that now but then it sets it at the beginning of the previous day and then my updates are not in order. Which I know is a weird thing to care about but I do somehow

This bugs me too, honestly. Basically nobody’s going to look back at my feed to see what I was reading a week ago, they’re just interested in the latest update, even if I’m updating what I read last week.