[solved] NTP in HTML Layout

Add-ons Bindings
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Following the guidelines given in this community I’ve successfully created an HTML page for the local weather information.
For example the current temperature is displayed using this simple statement:

<td id="weather-temp">${weather:temperature.current(%.1f)}</td>

Now I’d like to add the current date and time to this HTML site using the NTP binding.
I was hoping that inserting something like this would just print the desired information:

<td id="date-today">${ntp:Europe/Berlin:de_DE(%1$tA, %1$td.%1$tm.%1$tY %1$tH:%1$tM)}</td>

But of course it doesn’t. Instead the text within the paragraph-tag is displayed.

So is there a simple method to include the current Date from NTP in an HTML site?

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You used to be able to do that in OH 1.7 with the weather binding. But there were some architectural changes made on OH 2 which required a change to the Weather Binding that removed the ability to do that.

For now, only values from the Weather binding can be accessed from the webview.

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So here’s my fix:

The weather information is updated with an interval of 1 minute. So I simply use this to display the current date and time in my weather.html:

<div id="weather-date-today">${weather:condition.lastUpdate(%1$tA, %1$td.%1$tm.%1$tY %1$tH:%1$tM)}</div>

I’m only going to use the date information which allows me to reduce the weather uptdate interval to 15 minutes:

<div id="weather-date-today">${weather:condition.lastUpdate(%1$tA, %1$td.%1$tm.%1$tY)}</div>