I think there are three things going on here, none of which is your fault in the least. The first is that your event titles are longer than mine, so that makes things look a little less tidy. The second, which you point out, is that for some reason your School calendar has that funny name. Wish I could help you with that one, but I’m clueless. (One option, as I think of it, would be to search for that long string in $agenda, just before the creation of @agenda_sorted, and replace it with “School.” I think sed is the command you’d want to look into for that.)

The third problem, which I can offer some help with, is that at some point, without thinking to update the blog post, I removed the “Today” and “Tomorrow” syntax for non-all-day events (and the “Through ___” syntax for all-day events) with just a single asterisk for events (of both types) happening on the current day. I found the asterisk cleaner and just as useful, but to go back to the version above wouldn’t be too hard. Steps:

1. On (or near) line 88 (line numbers will vary depending on how many calendar URLs you have), replace $agenda .= "*"; with $agenda .= "Today: ";. This will restore the original labeling behavior for non-all-day events for the current day.
2. Around line 89 is a closing curly brace (}). Right after that, paste the following:
   
if ((($bday == ($tday + 1)) && ($bmonth == $tmonth)) || (($bday == 1) && ($bmonth == ($tmonth + 1 ))))
{
$agenda .= "Tomorrow: ";
}

   This will bring back the “Tomorrow: ” labeling—and should work even when “tomorrow” is the first day of the next month—which my original version never did, I think.
3. To remove the numerical date from these entries (since it’s now redundant), first delete line 95 ($agenda .= $bmonth;). Next, from line 96, remove /$bday, .
4. Next, the “Through: ” labeling for all-day events. On line 123, replace $agenda .= "*"; with $agenda .= "Through $eday: ".
5. To remove the numerical dates from these entries, delete line 125 ($agenda .= "$bmonth/$bday-$emonth/$eday: ";).

Let me know how these changes work for you! I have tested quickly on my end but am not good enough to know how things might translate from one machine to another.

thanks for your excellent work on this script. I’ve spent a few hours today getting this to work (never read the first few posts and took me forever to realize that I had to change permissions).

So now I have the script running and geektool puts it on my desktop but it doesn’t show up in your nice formatting like this:

Today, 12:30-14:00: Meet with Andrés
Tomorrow, 08:00-09:00: Call with client
Tomorrow, 19:00-20:00: Dinner at Casbah
Through 09/14: Off from work

instead i get all the events on my calendars listed without any aggregation by date. something like this (terminal output):

*11/02, 17:30-19:30: Harper
Personal
11/03, 13:30-14:30: Developer Interview: David O’Bryan, Charles P. Johnson and Associates
Work
11/03, 20:00-22:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
11/04, 14:00-15:00: Advocate Interview: J. Carroll Holzer, Holzer & Lee (at Eli)
Work
11/07, 17:30-19:45: Harper
Personal
11/08, 21:00-23:30: Function & Structure of Metro Areas (at 1101 ARC)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
11/09, 17:30-19:30: Harper
Personal
11/10, 21:00-23:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
11/14, 17:30-19:45: Harper
Personal
11/15, 21:00-23:30: Function & Structure of Metro Areas (at 1101 ARC)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
11/16, 17:30-19:30: Harper
Personal
11/17, 21:00-23:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
11/21, 17:30-19:45: Harper
Personal
11/22, 21:00-23:30: Function & Structure of Metro Areas (at 1101 ARC)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
11/23, 17:30-19:30: Harper
Personal
11/24, 21:00-23:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
11/28, 17:30-19:45: Harper
Personal
11/29, 21:00-23:30: Function & Structure of Metro Areas (at 1101 ARC)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
11/30, 17:30-19:30: Harper
Personal
12/01, 21:00-23:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
12/05, 17:30-19:45: Harper
Personal
12/06, 21:00-23:30: Function & Structure of Metro Areas (at 1101 ARC)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
12/07, 17:30-19:30: Harper
Personal
12/08, 21:00-23:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
12/12, 17:30-19:45: Harper
Personal
12/13, 21:00-23:30: Function & Structure of Metro Areas (at 1101 ARC)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
12/14, 17:30-19:30: Harper
Personal
12/15, 21:00-23:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
12/19, 17:30-19:45: Harper
Personal
12/20, 21:00-23:30: Function & Structure of Metro Areas (at 1101 ARC)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
12/21, 17:30-19:30: Harper
Personal
12/22, 21:00-23:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
12/27, 21:00-23:30: Function & Structure of Metro Areas (at 1101 ARC)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
12/29, 21:00-23:30: Growth Management & Environmental Planning (at 3219 ASY)
99vdagsv9mhsd93aopgpqpe2t4@group.calendar.google.com
(I still dont know why my School calendar shows up as that random string rather than ‘School’ but thats besides the point–its like that in google cal too)

do you have any idea whats going on? the only modifications I’ve made to the script are to add my own URLs and swap out your name for mine.

I haven’t had too much time to update the post, so if you find anything strange, let me know.

Thanks,
Devan

And don’t forget the condom, if you’re thinking that way.