Add Calendar Week Numbers to systray calendar

[Kardzhilov]

Some places use week numbers on their calendars as of right now the only way to get them on windows tray is to use third party calendars.

[crutkas]

hi @Kardzhilov, can you provide a screenshot or example of what you're thinking here? just want to be sure we're 100% understanding what you're thinking here

[Kardzhilov]

Sure @crutkas here is the functionality in ubuntu

[crutkas]

Super helpful as i had a slightly different mental model for this.

Can you help give me one more bit on how you leverage the weeks of the year? I understand you need them, just trying to understand the scenario a bit more for your use case.

[Kardzhilov]

Some countries refer to time periods using week numbers instead of dates.

If you are a student you might get told that an assignment is due week 37, or if you are taking vacation days you might say that you will be on vacation week 43-45. In the Norwegian school system week 40 is always the fall break.
It is not heavily in use day to day but it does get used enough to the point where it is annoying having to google "week X" to check when it is instead of being able to look at the calendar.

The windows 10 calendar app does support them but it would be a lot more convenient to have them in the smaller taskbar calendar.

[retrorich75]

One little programme I found that does the job nice and quick is https://github.com/otacke/timetray, just a number in the taskbar. Yes written in Java but thems the breaks :-)

[crutkas]

asking around, this may need to actually be addressed by the actual OS team.

[crutkas]

@Kardzhilov is just having the week # in the systray enough or the ideal solution of have it in the OS cal? Saying OS Calendar is totally ok

[Kardzhilov]

@Kardzhilov is just having the week # in the systray enough or the ideal solution of have it in the OS cal? Saying OS Calendar is totally ok

Ideally having it in OS calendar would be best since then you could also plan ahead to check when things are happening or whatnot. Just having the week # in the systray would still be better then the current alternatives though.

[kvervo]

Hi!

My 5 cents on this requests. In my case, I would really like to have the following scenarios:

• Ability to choose what to display on system tray:
  • Date: Weekday name, Year, Week Number
  • Time: Seconds
• Ability to define first week of year: 1 jan, first full week, frist 4-day week

Having the calendar that open from the systray to show week numbers is a nice addition. But not a MUST requirement.

Example of applications already doing something similar:

• https://sindresorhus.com/dato (MacOS) which I currently use for my personal macbook
• https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock (Windows) which I tried to use for my work laptop, but was not happy with the experience

[Jay-o-Way]

asking around, this may need to actually be addressed by the actual OS team.

@crutkas Any word yet?

[Gakk]

I would say just having the week # in the system tray is not enough. As others have pointed out, at least in Norway we use the week number a lot, and I have missed this feature for years.

I usually know the current week number, so system tray would not help. And it is a pain to open the tray calendar and count week numbers forward a couple of months. In my point of view it has to be in the OS calendar.

A screenshot of how Outlook has implemented this:

[CaptInsano]

Would love to see this implemented just as @Gakk has suggested.
Found the ressurected PowerToy project seaching for an answer to this issue

Every week I have to google the current week number when doing payroll!!

[Chris2011]

I'm searching for this option so long. At the end I used T-Clock to add this feature, but it adds a not so nice looking calender. Are there any public APIs available for the Calendar that I can try to add this by my own?.

[juliienp]

this feature would be great !

[FirebladeBMW]

Waiting on this feature since years now. I need it for work on a daily basis.

[anton-x-t]

This issue or requested feature seems to have quite some support here
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32236114-show-week-number-in-windows-10-tray-calendar-app

[Jay-o-Way]

That request was made in nov 2017 and MS still hasn't done (...) with it. Typical. I'm getting tired of it.
On the other hand, that forum is made for MS Teams, so the request is out of place there...

[Aaron-Junker]

@crutkas @jaimecbernardo I don't see that we would be able to do this. Any reason to left this issue open?

[crutkas]

Please keep open

[anton-x-t]

Please keep open. Why can't this be done? This is a proposition how it could look on Windows 10:

[Chris2011]

@crutkas @jaimecbernardo I don't see that we would be able to do this. Any reason to left this issue open?

To understand your comment better, can you please tell more about your question? It seems that there is no public API for that or why you think ou can't do anything here?

[gferreroferri]

it would be great to have the option to show the week number on the taskbar at least. And to show the month calendar with week numbers when clicked would be even better :)

[Luth1ng]

any news on this please ?

[nullbert]

+1
I am currently opening Google Calendar through WSA. This has been a long-lost feature in the OS calendar for decades.

[faizanakram99]

A huge lol that windows doesn't support this, and on top of that folks here are asking why do you need it, lol. It is basic feature of any calendar.

[mfiordi]

Any news on this? I did open a similar request but was closed in favor of this one. I think it is pretty unacceptable that this can't be solved. Is this really so difficult to develop?