I know I’m going the wrong direction here but added in switch to finer scale under 10 hours to launch. Now 21 chunks again. 
Anyway, I found this progression interesting.
Showing all 5 launches:
Set my showAll flag to false. Showing 3 all more than 10 hours away:
Then the first launch enters the 10 hour window:
Now both the falcon 9 and Electron are within 10 hours:
Well heck, since you are up-chunk’ing… 
Why not make the colors different during the final 10 hours…
It will make it easier to distinguish between the two gauges.
I tell you, I had to scrap sooo many ideas on this one due to lack of space to code properly…
(hopefully, I’ll be able to squeeze most of my ideas in to my double-whammy pistons)
I like the layout of this site to pick colors…
Also quite handy to see two colors side by side (since they will be in the gauge)
(also cool to have the ability to see the gradients in between two colors)
I would choose colors fairly light (faint) so they do not hide the tick marks…
In the color square, the top left third seems to be the ideal shades for gauge colors.
(shown highlighted below)
(the outer circle can be anywhere though)
T-30 min to next launch…
(Although Google’s gauges are still down for me)
<quote>
Live coverage is currently not available. Please check back for status updates.
</quote>
Note to self…
If there’s no video coverage, then what’s the point of posting a launch countdown? LOL
Defense from self:
Patience, my young Padawan… The video feed is due to go live in 5 minutes…
I played with it a bit but still figuring it out.
Finally found the live feed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAp3EGE4HI4
They say live coverage will start in about 8 minutes
I’m beginning to see a pattern with this particular New Zealand launch site…
To be fair though, they don’t have a bunch of archived footage to pass the time before the launch, LOL
I think they said something about this being their 9th launch?
(I’m not sure at what capacity they were referring to though)
Hey thanks for that link. Too bad that was not found in the API call 
That would be handy to have automatically at each launch.
Was that just a random YouTube search that got you there?
Ugg… They just bumped the time… again
When I went to the link from the API, I clicked on ‘stream 1’ and it took me to YouTube but still the blank screen. Then I saw up in the corner was the live feed.
Currently delayed due to bad weather, and my time is a bit limited right now…
I think I will tap out on this one, and hopefully catch the next one.
I guess I missed both launches…
Side Note:
Maybe China is reading my posts…
This time, they gave us a 2.5 day warning to steal all their military secrets plan for the launch. 
A China Long March 3B rocket will launch the Beidou-3 GEO-3 mission on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 2:04 AM (UTC)."
(L-2 days, 10:37:00)
Note to self…
I just noticed a graphical bug that has no impact on reliability, but noting it here for future reference.
The hover text at the moment starts with:
╔ China in 48 hrs ╗
╚ (Mon @ 12:4 PM) ╝
This second line is only for display purposes, and translates to local time of 12:04pm
(I do not have the room to add logic for an extra zero, and the math is still spot on, so I am leaving it for this version)
It should only be noticed on about 17% of launches… (:00 thru :09)
No logic required. You just need an extra ‘m’ in the {time} format string:
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formatDateTime(nextLaunch,"E @ h:mm a")
EDIT: I forgot you use this longhand version but still just need an extra ‘m’:
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' @ 'formatDateTime(nextLaunch,"h")':'formatDateTime(nextLaunch,"mm")' 'formatDateTime(nextLaunch,"a")
My expression above produces the same result in a shorter form.
MORE EDIT: If you use the shorter form above, you need to remove the formatDateTime for day of week from the piston state expression. I combined them. I also created a new variable {longTime} with ‘EEEE’ to use for the voice alert.
I’m suddenly getting double hover text. Have you seen this before? It doesn’t happen with my day length gauges.
Double hover is when your Dashboard has not fully refreshed.
(although I have never seen it in multiple colors before)
When I see double hover text, I hit Ctrl-F5 to do a hard refresh.
(it always clears it up)
Note: This will not execute the piston… It’ll just re-draw the Dashboard images.
