Trouble with duration calculation

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What I’m trying to do

I want to create a template for planning class hours. I use meta data to include the rhythm (like every week) and the start date of a course. With this information I wrote some inline DQLs to generate headers for each class hour. So I have something like:

“—
…
rhythm : 7 days
startdate: 2023-09-04
—”

KW =dateformat(this.startdate+ 0 * this.rhythm ,"W") - =dateformat(this.startdate+ 0 * this.rhythm ,"EEE, dd.MM.yyyy")

KW =dateformat(this.startdate+ 1 * this.rhythm ,"W") - =dateformat(this.startdate+ 1 * this.rhythm ,"EEE, dd.MM.yyyy")

To get something like

KW 36 - Mo., 04.09.2023

KW 37 - Mo., 11.09.2023

However I run into problems for some durations and the result is not as expected (e.g. shows a Wednesday when it should always be a Monday).

KW 40 - Mi., 04.10.2023

Things I have tried

I “debugged” it a little and found out that the code does something strange when it comes e.g. to “4 * 7 days”:

=(4 * this.rhythm ).days

turns into

30

I believe somehow it is recognized as a month and that would be 30 days, even though I want it to be 4 * 7 days = 28 days. I tried to write the rythms as hours and other formats but I can’t get this to work.

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? Thank you very much!

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As you’ve written it now, your rhythm variable holds the duration directly, and this could cause some issues related to months as you’ve experienced. I think you can solve this by changing it to a pure number, and then create the duration directly when you’re calculating the new dates.

`=dateformat(this.startdate+ dur(1 * this.rhythm + " days"), "W")`

I think this’ll circumvent the conversion to months.

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Thank you very much, this seems to work!