Achievements rule for anniversary

[Orioni]

Good afternoon, dear Invision Community,

Context

Some members of my own community have been around for years, if not decades. I would like to display this with automatic achievements.

Problem

A custom rule would allow me to do so. Unfortunately, the highest level you can set for this rule is “weeks”.

Now, I considered using custom “days” to do this (1 year = 365 days; 2 years = 730 days; etc.). However, leap years throw a wrench, making the anniversary inaccurate.

Question

Is there another way to solve this, and achieve the result I'm looking for?

[Marc Stridgen]

I have moved this to our feedback forum for you, as unfortunately this isnt something I can think of a way around at present.

[GazzaGarratt]

This is how I do it @Orioni @Marc Stridgen as this equates to what you are trying to do:

 

 

Basically, the best way is to just calculate the days in the years you want. Its not 100% technically correct with leap years, etc, but I can't see anyone disagreeing with this approach and its worked perfectly for us.

Here's a few in the list I have set up:

Hope this helps! 😄

[Marc Stridgen]

The question there was how to do this without being broken due to leap years 🙂 

[Nathan Explosion]

Use 365.25 days, as a year is 365.242 days in length (leap year adds up the .242 from the 4 years to add that extra day)

When you save it, it will be saved and will be displayed as an hour amount of 8766 hours (=365.25 days)

Edited April 26 by Nathan Explosion

[Orioni]

@Marc Stridgen – Thank you for your clarity. I can live with the fact that a solution does not yet exist. Perhaps in the future this small feature might be considered.

@GazzaGarratt & @Nathan Explosion – True. I'd also considered setting 365.25 days as a year. Then again, since not all members join in the same year, you're still guessing when the leap year will be. So the actual date will still be off.