Setting a variable for the season or a couple of months

Up in the north we have long warm days during summer and short cold during winther .
This will influence both ypur outdoor activities and the length of the sunrise and sunset.

I am not sure how to set a variable for ex june-aug to summer and dec-feb to winther.

You’d need a few triggers - first day of each ‘season’, ie June, September, December, March.

Have them each set the value of your variable to some text value.


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Here's what I use in a schedule that runs every day at 12:01AM :

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#!/usr/bin/env python
from datetime import date, datetime

Y = 2000 # dummy leap year to allow input X-02-29 (leap day)
seasons = [('winter', (date(Y,  1,  1),  date(Y,  3, 20))),
           ('Spring', (date(Y,  3, 21),  date(Y,  6, 20))),
           ('Summer', (date(Y,  6, 21),  date(Y,  9, 22))),
           ('Fall', (date(Y,  9, 23),  date(Y, 12, 20))),
           ('winter', (date(Y, 12, 21),  date(Y, 12, 31)))]

def get_season(now):
    if isinstance(now, datetime):
        now = now.date()
    now = now.replace(year=Y)
    return next(season for season, (start, end) in seasons
                if start <= now <= end)

strSeason = get_season(date.today())
indigo.variable.updateValue(921811727, str.title(strSeason))