YAT80C - Yet Another T80 Calculator

[wdotcx]

YAT80C - Yet Another T80 Calculator

I’ve created a modern user-input friendly T80 calculator that only requires your departure airport, departure date/time and timezone. It will create a calendar reminder as well. Some of the existing calculators lacked timezone calculations and had too many drop-down boxes.

Hope you find it useful.

Qantas T80 Calculator

 

[ChrisMars]

@wdotcx - Good stuff. The challenge now that T80 trick knowledge is widespread, is to actually beat the competition.

 

[RooFlyer]

Welcome to AFF @wdotcx , and thanks.

 

[adenda]

YAT80C - Yet Another T80 Calculator

I’ve created a modern user-input friendly T80 calculator that only requires your departure airport, departure date/time and timezone. It will create a calendar reminder as well. Some of the existing calculators lacked timezone calculations and had too many drop-down boxes.

Hope you find it useful.

Qantas T80 Calculator

Tried it out and easy to use.
One observation: the calendar entry created has the note:
“Check-in and reserve the best seat”
It’s not possible to check-in at T-80, you can only do seat selection.

 

[Daver6]

Nice!

If you're bored and looking to add features, the ability to add to Google calendar and iCalendar directly from the webpage would be useful.

 

[wdotcx]

Tried it out and easy to use.
One observation: the calendar entry created has the note:
“Check-in and reserve the best seat”
It’s not possible to check-in at T-80, you can only do seat selection.

Good point. I'll update the description text. Thanks.

 

[wdotcx]

Nice!

If you're bored and looking to add features, the ability to add to Google calendar and iCalendar directly from the webpage would be useful.

Thanks for the suggestion, just read the Google Calendar API and shouldn't be too hard to add this feature.

 

[tdimdad]

And if you get really bored, opting for a 24-hour clock, perhaps, and defaulting the timezone to the departure airport?
In fact, I didn't get this to work at all because had no idea what the expected input for the timezone is. I tried 'aest', 'AEST', 'Sydney' and 'UTC+10'.

 

[serfty]

And if you get really bored, opting for a 24-hour clock, perhaps, and defaulting the timezone to the departure airport?
In fact, I didn't get this to work at all because had no idea what the expected input for the timezone is. I tried 'aest', 'AEST', 'Sydney' and 'UTC+10'.

Seems it has stopped auto populating the airports and hence time zones.

 

[wdotcx]

And if you get really bored, opting for a 24-hour clock, perhaps, and defaulting the timezone to the departure airport?
In fact, I didn't get this to work at all because had no idea what the expected input for the timezone is. I tried 'aest', 'AEST', 'Sydney' and 'UTC+10'.

Thanks. The timezone was an easy update to be more descriptive.

I really wanted to force a 24-hour clock but it's browser dependent (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) all display the date/time input box differently and the displayed date/time is formatted according to the user's locale as reported by their operating system, the joys of cross-platform development. I'll dev and force the 24-hour clock in soon.

 

[tdimdad]

Cool, I got it to work. Thanks, wdotcx! I also had fun with the timezone field.
In your backlog, can I suggest you unify the notation of the time input and output, please? It'll lower the mental gymnastics and conversion we need to make.

I have a formula in my holiday planning workbook for this but you've made an elegant little page for this. It's simple and efficient and beats my workbook any time.

If different combinations matter, I'm testing this on Win11, Firefox, regional settings = Australia but 24 h clock (hh:mm).

 

[wdotcx]

Seems it has stopped auto populating the airports and hence time zones.

Sorry merged the wrong dev tree, I have to be more careful now it's public.

 

[tdimdad]

One little wish, please: that we could navigate the dropdown lists with the keyboard up/down keys. As an input method, it'd be more efficient when you can type, up/down and tab your way through the form instead needing to grab the mouse to select entries.

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

flight number entry would be great

 

[wdotcx]

Nice!

If you're bored and looking to add features, the ability to add to Google calendar and iCalendar directly from the webpage would be useful.

Added Google Calendar support and auto detect current location.

 

[Daver6]

Added Google Calendar support and auto detect current location.

There's an error in the calendar invite.

This result


Generates this GCal event

Finally, not sure if it's possible, but a reminder would actually be even more useful for GCal.

 

[wdotcx]

One little wish, please: that we could navigate the dropdown lists with the keyboard up/down keys. As an input method, it'd be more efficient when you can type, up/down and tab your way through the form instead needing to grab the mouse to select entries.

Okay. Added up, down and enter to move and select through the dropdown list.

 

[wdotcx]

There's an error in the calendar invite.

This result
View attachment 382263

Generates this GCal event

Finally, not sure if it's possible, but a reminder would actually be even more useful for GCal.
View attachment 382262

Thanks for reporting. Should be adding the correct time now, Google wanted it in UTC, and then the browser adjusted the timezone too. I did some testing but if you notice it's not right post or PM me the URL, it's got the date/time in the URL query string and I can take a look.

 

[Daver6]

Thanks for reporting. Should be adding the correct time now, Google wanted it in UTC, and then the browser adjusted the timezone too. I did some testing but if you notice it's not right post or PM me the URL, it's got the date/time in the URL query string and I can take a look.

Time zone issue resolved.

Is adding a meeting reminder by default do-able via the API? That would be great too.