PoC Time+Date manipulation blocks #42
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The basic premise is all time related blocks will translate to a unix time in seconds (since 1/1/1970).
It should be assumed that all things are in User Timezone, unless stated otherwise (weather block values).
There is a settings cog to allow selecting timezone when appropriate, and also for strftime formatting options.
This is the block list (first two from original PoC by Justin [#34], but updated to work in seconds instead of minutes):

Combined with the Create Duration block (e.g. 2days) the user can do time/date arithmetic.
An example of the sunset calculator (2hrs before sunset) and a few block experiments:

And this is what's inside the format time as text block settings:
To recreate the washing machine monitor project in blocks, it would require accessing the
updated_atproperty of a feed, so a new Get Feed Property block was proposed. See #43