Hi

[dana]

Hello everyone,

I found my way here because I want to write some intelligent macros based on Time of Day and Day of Week.

I know fxiiread is broken, but I think I can still do this reasonably well by polling the clock every so often. Just have to deal with clock spam in your chatlog.

So, wish me luck!

Dana

[sdphantom]

Welcome.

As for getting clock information, you don't have to spam "/clock" to FFXI to get the time. The Lua core itself is independant of FFXI, it's just the FFXI libraries of Lunar (the addon) that's bust. Check out the Lua Documentation, the link for it is in my sig.

In the Lua core, os.time() gives you the system time in seconds since midnight, Jan 1st, 1970 GMT.

os.time(), when called with a time argurment, calculates the value given that local time. Called without arguements returns the current time in GMT.


Examples:

To get your GMT offset in seconds.os.time({year=1970,month=1,day=1,hour=0,min=0,sec=0})

To get the current GMT time (time of day in seconds).math.mod(os.time(),86400)

To get the current way of week (also based off GMT).math.floor(math.mod(os.time(),86400*7)/86400)

[Sufo]

hmmm i see sdphantom gave RL time for the game. but what i got from it is that maybe you want to get the in-game time?

[sdphantom]

Game time is a little more involved in mathematics, but if you're interested in that instead, take a look through this thread.