Move files in folders depending on the day.

[sparuj]

Hello everyone,

This seems out of the world thing for me and would like to ask for help if possible.

The thing that I want to accomplish is to set a script that can check what day is today depending on the timezone, for example EDT and move the files in folders accordingly.

Something like this:

Launch the script > check what day it is today by using timeanddate's website or something else (not my pc) > Move filename.jpg to /Thursday/filename.jpg | filename2.jpg to /Friday/filename2.jpg | filename3.jpg to /Sunday/filename3.jpg and so on...

Is something like this actually possible?

Cheers!

[mikell]

Yes of course it is
Just use InetRead with a simple free time API (for example worldtimeapi.org) to get the time in json or txt format, then build a pretty little code to achieve the rest using the integrated AutoIt functions 

[JockoDundee]

@TheXman has some code that will pull time from a NTP server.

is your reason for not relying on your pc clock because of accuracy issues or because you need to retrieve time for arbitrary time zones?

[sparuj]

Thank you for the help guys. I'll see what I can do.

@JockoDundee, on second thought I don't mind using my pc if it's possible to set a different timezone for the script, since I would like to use the timezone where I live on my pc.

[Guest]

57 minutes ago, sparuj said:

set a different timezone for the script

Here is an example which takes up the suggestion of @mikell  (using worldtimeapi.org) :

Global $aDay[8] = [7, "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"]
Global $sWorldTimeAPIResponse, $aDayOfTheWeek, $iError = 0

; full list of timezones, see ==> http://worldtimeapi.org/timezones
$sWorldTimeAPIResponse = GetDateFromWorldTimeAPI('Europe/Berlin')
If @error Then
    ConsoleWrite("Error connecting to the internet!" & @CRLF)
Else
    $aDayOfTheWeek = StringRegExp($sWorldTimeAPIResponse,"(?i)\Qday_of_week: \E(\d)", 3)
    MsgBox(0, 'Day : ', 'Day of the week = ' & $aDay[$aDayOfTheWeek[0]] & @CRLF)
    MsgBox(0, 'Full Response : ', $sWorldTimeAPIResponse) ; *** only for test
EndIf

Func GetDateFromWorldTimeAPI($sTimezone, $bProxy = False, $sProxy = "", $sURL = "http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/")
    Local $oHTTP = ObjCreate("winhttp.winhttprequest.5.1")
    If $iError Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
    If $bProxy Then $oHttp.SetProxy(2, $sProxy)
    $oHTTP.Open("GET", $sURL & $sTimezone & '.txt', False)
    $oHTTP.Send()
    If $iError Then Return SetError(2, 0, 0)
    Local $sDate = $oHTTP.ResponseText
    $oHTTP = Null
    Return $sDate
EndFunc

 

[JockoDundee]

2 hours ago, sparuj said:

on second thought I don't mind using my pc if it's possible to set a different timezone for the script, since I would like to use the timezone where I live on my pc.

How do you intend to specify which time zone the script should be using at any moment?

by time zone code, or description, or a bias from UTC, or other?