help with reaing time hour:min

[lgvlgv]

How to u get only "hour:min" from system and compare it with time=hour:min in a inifile?

ex.. time=18:00

I keep getting lost when it comes to time functions.

//Regards L

 

[water]

@HOUR & ":" & @MIN

[somdcomputerguy]

The macros @HOUR & @MIN, as well as the functions IniRead & StringInStr could probably be used to accommodate you here.

edit: oh I'm a slow typer!

Edited September 23, 2013 by somdcomputerguy

[lgvlgv]

The macros @HOUR & @MIN, as well as the functions IniRead & StringInStr could probably be used to accommodate you here.

edit: oh I'm a slow typer!

i was thinking that but wasent sure when comparing they would be the same format or if one was just text and the other some date/time format?

[somdcomputerguy]

Look at water's post (#2) to put the time macros and the : character in the desired format. The macros would be creating a string, and a string would be read from the file.

[water]

As soon as you concatenate numbers with a character (":") the result is a string. IniRead returns a string too.

So no problem when comparing.

[lgvlgv]

If i vant to convert it, what do i do?  i would like to stop some services between lets say 03:00 and 07:00, the rest of the time its ok to run.

[kylomas]

lgvlgv,

Convert what?  This will do something once every day between 03:00 and 07:00. 

local $flag = false     ; used to do action once

while 1

    if (@hour >= 03 and @hour <= 07) and $flag = false then
        $flag = true
        ;
        ; do your thing
        ;
    EndIf

    sleep(1000)

    if (@hour < 03 or @hour > 07) and $flag then $flag = not $flag

wend

kylomas