[Plugin] System date and time

Naji

Hi Im working on a Christmas Calendar

Can I setup an event/action to only be active on a date for december

using this plugin ?

Cheers

Flemming

flemmig

I guess you need to check the date to see if now is at a specific day.

+ every tick

+ Date.Month = 12

+ Date.Date = 25

• do someting...

This plugin is really useful for me. Thank you very much.

I have a (probably noob) question: Is it possible to print the year only with the las two digits? i.e.: just '14' instead of '2014'.

Thanks again,

Fer

FERdeBOER

str(Date.Year % 100)

FERdeBOER

str(Date.Year % 100)

That's definitively better than what I was thinking about, passing it to a variable and substracting 2000

Thank you very much!

To author:

i had analyzed your code and i found the problems

Exps.prototype.Year = function (ret, timestamp)
	{
	    var today = (timestamp != null)? new Date(timestamp): new Date();
		ret.set_int(today.getFullYear());
	};

.....

Exps.prototype.UnixTimestamp = function (ret)
	{
	    var today = new Date();
        ret.set_float(today.getTime());
	};
[/code:3dp5k345]

reference:http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_dates.asp
JavaScript dates are [b]calculated in milliseconds[/b] from 01 January, 1970 00:00:00 Universal Time (UTC).
One day contains 86,400,000 millisecond.

seems in javascript
a Date object include milliseconds (1 second = 1000 milliseconds) and the standard unix timestamp is 1421664587 (2015/1/19 18:49:47 GMT+8) is NOT include milliseconds part
so the unix timestamp should multiply by 1000 to 1421664587000
[quote:3dp5k345][unix timestamp] * 1000 = [java Date]
1421664587 * 1000 = 1421664587000


to get a unix timestamp from Date object just need to Date.getTime() divide by 1000
[quote:3dp5k345][java Date] / 1000 = [unix timestamp]
1421664587000 / 1000 = 1421664587


[code:3dp5k345]
Exps.prototype.Year = function (ret, timestamp)
	{
	    var today = (timestamp != null)? new Date(timestamp*1000): new Date();
		ret.set_int(today.getFullYear());
	};

...
Exps.prototype.UnixTimestamp = function (ret)
	{
	    var today = new Date();
        ret.set_float(today.getTime()/1000);
	};
[/code:3dp5k345]

and i modified the plugin to above code
i got a correct result to convert from unix timestamp to Year
This is what i suggest in your next update
i wish this may help you to solve this problems

fongka2

Yes, the return value is based on milliseconds, which described in ACE table.

Expression:UnixTimestamp Get current number of milliseconds since the epoch.[/code:2koe22b7]
Since users had used it based on milliseconds, the changing will break their projects.

Thank you Rex. Great plugin. This is exactly what I needed.

Thanks, Rexrainbow!

I might be too new at this, but I'm having a hard time understanding how to use the plugin. The mechanics are there but I'm just not getting it.

I made a very simple "digital pet" app and I wanted your plugin to check the time since the user last logged in. I need to use this data in order to assign the "pets" age variable. Do you have a simple example of how I could do this?

Thank you.

TheSynan

Try rex_time_away plugin.

Call "Action:Start timer" when left. You might need to call it every tick (or every second/minute) to prevent left game without logging out.

Then get the elapsed time by "Expression:ElapsedTime" at next login.

TheSynan

Try rex_time_away plugin.

Call "Action:Start timer" when left. You might need to call it every tick (or every second/minute) to prevent left game without logging out.

Then get the elapsed time by "Expression:ElapsedTime" at next login.

So, start the timer on end of layout?

At start of layout get elapsedtime?

:/ Maybe I should read up some more haha.

TheSynan

Yes, you might try the sample capx appended in document.

This is just beautiful! Thank you very much —

Now I can make a neat addition to my desktop app.