How do I get time of day from IFTTT for location?

[zedmango]

I’ve reviewed these threads:

IFTTT Macros

IFTTT Triggers can pass data on to Actions (IFTTT calls this data Trigger Ingredients). Some of those data types are things that a person might want to beemind, but they’re not necessarily in a format that the Beeminder Add Datapoint Action recognizes, so rather than try to be overly clever and make guesses about what you meant and if you meant it, we’ve added in some macros for the Value field. Trigger Ingredients First lemme provide a little illustration of what I’m talking about with Trigge…

Beeminding getting to coffee shop by certain time each day

As a whittle-down inbox-like goal, I think I agree that it’d be strict. @dreev may have been thinking of a do-less goal, which would enforce the average rather than put a cap on the absolute time. Conversely, a do-less goal sums the datapoints by default, which wouldn’t be helpful in this case Couple of thoughts regarding goal settings: visiting the coffee shop multiple times in a day will create multiple entries. You want the earliest one to count, so aggregate them as the minimum value. Wh…

I want to have a Do Less goal for the number of minutes after 9am I arrive at work. From those threads, it seems as if I should just be able to set a location trigger through IFTTT sending the time to Beeminder, and use the TOD macro.

But it doesn’t seem like there is any way of getting IFTTT to include the time! The only options for “add ingredient” are: OccurredAt, LocationMapImageUrl, LocationMapUrl. None of those seem to have the time.

There was one suggestion to have it send me an email with a specified subject line, then have another trigger for when I get an email with that subject line - which would probably work, but I would really rather not have to do that.

The other problem is doing the subtraction so I can get the number of minutes after 9am - can I just do PROD[60, SUM[TOD, -9]]?

I specifically want my goal to be a DoLess goal for minutes after 9am, if at all possible.

Thanks for any help.

[zedmango]

Figured it out!

OccurredAt does have the time in it and PROD[60, SUM[TOD[{{OccurredAt}}], -9]] works perfectly. I may need to change it to PROD[-60, SUM[TOD[{{OccurredAt}}], -9]] for minutes before 10 so that I can use the slope functionality.