getting the real day and time

[Legacy_acomputerdood]

               my module restarts every 12 hours from a cronjob, and i want it to keep track if it's currently running in the AM or PM mode (and the day of the month).  i'm using nwnx.

my ideas so far:
- have a way for the linix cronjob to pass a flag or variable that OnModuleLoad can read.  i'm using nwnx, but i'm not aware of a function to do this.  ideas?
- capture a "say" command from the console.  is that even possible?  nwnx_chat might be able to do it, no?
- use OnModuleLoad to call GetTimeHour to determine AM or PM.  but i didn't see a function to get the real-life calendar day.

there has to be an easy way to do this, right?  what am i missing here?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_acomputerdood]

               nwnx_funcs has GetTimeOfDay() which returns system time in seconds.  again, that won't give me the day or month.  '>
               
               

               

                     Modifié par acomputerdood, 04 avril 2013 - 11:21 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_acomputerdood]

               ahhh, this is a workable solution.  nwnx_system has FileReadAll() which will read in the contents of a file from the system.

this way i can use my cronjob to set whatever string i want.  much easier.


still curious about other solutions, though.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_CaveGnome]

               Hello,

Perhaps, if you don't mind atomic precision, you just can convert system time (or game time using the scale coefficient) seconds in hours, days, months, years and have an initial date & hour reference entered manually to fix the starting point init. But the FileReadAll() seems a better approach if you can grab directly the system time (disclaimer, i don't use nwnx).
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_virusman]

               You can use SQL time functions if you're using NWNX database plugin.