Not sure if there is a setting for time

Posted by Teef on Mon 11 Nov 2013 07:53 AM — 4 posts, 19,408 views.

Teef Mon 11 Nov 2013 07:53 AM #0

So I want to include a timestamp to an arrival/tells miniwindow so I did a lot of searching and saw several ways to do it but I keep getting a weird result no matter what I try.

I've used several variations of GetInfo in and out of plugins and the time comes out as a number string.

<triggers>
  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   match="You say, "Meh.""
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>
ColourNote ( "white" , "red" , GetInfo (304))
</send>
  </trigger>
</triggers>

'meh

You say, "Meh."
1384156252

'meh

You say, "Meh."
1384156255

not sure what is going on, is it not picking up the time from my computer or is there something in preferences that needs to be checked. Or does this need to be converted to time and date somehow?

Chyort USA Mon 11 Nov 2013 11:37 AM #1

http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?id=10728&page=1

No clue if you have seen this or not... But just in case you haven't why reinvent the wheel.

Time stamp, scroll bar, resize tab, ton of other features...

Or if you really want to make your own perhaps you can figure out how this one does the timestamp

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Mon 11 Nov 2013 07:53 PM #2

The Lua function os.date will give you a nice, formatted, timestamp.

Teef Mon 11 Nov 2013 10:17 PM #3

Thanks, no I didn't see that. I saw another one like it that didn't have timestamps which is why I was trying to add them. I'll try that plugin.

After a few hours of searching last night I did come across references for os.date but was too tired and was planning to give that a whirl today since I wasn't expecting any immediate responses. Thanks for the fast replies!