Relative formatting for date only ("today", "tomorrow", "yesterday", ...)

[patrickhilker]

Hey there!

I have several sensors created by the Google Calendar integration reporting a datetime. I would like to display the date as a relative date in the entities card, but without the time, as these dates represent the whole day.

Those are displayed for example as "in 5 hours" instead of "tomorrow". I would love to output the sensors dates as "today", "tomorrow", "yesterday", "in 5 days", "in 2 weeks" and so on.

Keep on the amazing work!

[spacegaier]

Some context for others reading this: If the device_class of those sensors is timestamp (and they probably should if they contain a timestamp) then the entities card allows you to define various render formats already: https://www.home-assistant.io/lovelace/entities/#format

But I think OP wants to have an additional one like relative_date (compared to the existing relative) that only considers the date portion for the relative time calculation. I like that and would have anyway raised a similar topic soon for also having weekday ("e.g "Monday") and weekday_short ("Mon") added. I might create a PR for those three.

[patrickhilker]

Absolutely - I also thought about a format called relative_date. Thanks in advance for your effort!

[ralphje]

This should also exist for entities with a device class of date, perhaps even as default (relative seems to be the default for datetime entities).

[jazzyisj]

I suggested this while back, it didn't get much traction.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/date-device-class-relative-display/412469

[Sidelity]

I think this definitely should be added. Here's a real life example:

I have 2 template sensors:

1. Next alarm is using device class Timestamp. It formats nicely in the dashboard to "In X hours", or "Tomorrow", "In X days" etc.
2. Next watering day is using device class Date. It's not formatted nicely at all, and just displays the date, even if the date is tomorrow.