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TomaszB
13 Feb 2026
Proposal of data / time component types.
Hi Gizmo

This time it is an idea for a small improvement:

There are many various types of variables / components defined in ChipChop (numerical, GPS, strings, on/off/....). It would be nice to have additional types related to date and time:

Timestamp - where you send a standard epoch time (time_t) - so just an integer, but it is rendered as data & time. In the most sophisticated version there would be a choice of time zone used for rendering and data format (only date or date and time).

Time_elapsed - when you send a number of seconds (integer) but it is displayed as days, hours : minutes : seconds.

Kind regards
Tomasz
Gizmo
13 Feb 2026

You are on a mission today to keep me busy!!!

Yeah, that's a very good idea. It can be EXTREMELY complicated if you start messing with the timezones, trust me, the pain is unimaginable. But, in general, it shouldn't be too difficult so when you send a unix timestamp it would get translated and displayed into whatever time format settings are on the device you are viewing it .

Elapsed time is also not too difficult.

As with anything, what takes most of the time is the interface in the Dev Console but I think this shouldn't take me too long.

Let's first try to sort out your esp8266 and getMyStatus() problem and then I'll look into thsi