Hi,

Anyone knows how to add a calendar event to google calendar with googlecl 2 minutes from current time?
The idea is to add a new entry to the calendar 2 minutes from now with reminder set to 1 minute before the event. So I could set google calendar to send me a text message alert. I want to set up monitoring on my server so if anything happens I could get a text within 60 sec.
I have checked the documentation but there is nothing there about adding a new event in 2 min. I also tried to do
"# googlecl calendar add "text here in 2 minutes" --reminder 1m"
all i got is an event staring now and last for 2 minutes. No alert was sent.
Thanks

If you're on Linux or something similar, you could use the date command to do the thinking for you...

google calendar add "test event today from `date -d "now + 2 minutes" +%H:%M`"

Use "man date" to see what's going on, but basically, the -d switch lets you specify a date other than now (and it speaks some common formats) and the + bit controls the output format. So the stuff between the `` backticks comes out as 12:05 if it's currently 12:03.

thanks a lot marleo
This solution is exactly what i need
the way I tried was:

hour=`date +%H`
min=`date +%M`
plus=$(( $min + 2 ))
now="$hour:$plus"
/usr/bin/google calendar add "test at $now" --reminder 1m

but I had problem from hh:58. then I did case for 58 and 59 and the rest of minutes just add 2 but it was getting way too complicated for this simple thing.

Thanks again