_NowTime()

[Diana (Cda)]

I found _NowTime() in the help file but it gives the exact format seen in regional settings. Unfortunately, filenames won't take colons ":" so was hoping to change the script to give me results that will work in filenames.

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; AutoIt v3.0
;

SoundPlay (@ScriptDir & "\WAVS\Robotz Menu Popup.wav")

#include <date.au3>
$thisday = StringMid("Sn,Mn,Tu,Wd,Th,Fr,Sa", StringInStr("SunMonTueWedThuFriSat", _DateDayOfWeek(@WDAY,1) ), 2)

ClipPut(@YEAR & '.'  & @MON & '.'  & @MDAY & '.' & $thisday & ", " & _NowTime())

Sleep(500)

Exit
; finished

This gives me this type of format in the time part: 16:47

Is there a way to get it instead to show up as 16h47, in 24-hour format with an "h" as separator instead of ":" (as per the French system)?

Thanks.

[james3mg]

I found _NowTime() in the help file but it gives the exact format seen in regional settings. Unfortunately, filenames won't take colons ":" so was hoping to change the script to give me results that will work in filenames.

;
; AutoIt v3.0
;

SoundPlay (@ScriptDir & "\WAVS\Robotz Menu Popup.wav")

#include <date.au3>
$thisday = StringMid("Sn,Mn,Tu,Wd,Th,Fr,Sa", StringInStr("SunMonTueWedThuFriSat", _DateDayOfWeek(@WDAY,1) ), 2)

ClipPut(@YEAR & '.'  & @MON & '.'  & @MDAY & '.' & $thisday & ", " & _NowTime())

Sleep(500)

Exit
; finished

This gives me this type of format in the time part: 16:47

Is there a way to get it instead to show up as 16h47, in 24-hour format with an "h" as separator instead of ":" (as per the French system)?

Thanks.

StringReplace("16:47",":","h")?

That's the easy way...

[Jos]

- or simply use @Hour & "h" & @Min

[Diana (Cda)]

- or simply use @Hour & "h" & @Min

Oh, man, that's embarrassing. How simple. And yet I looked and looked in the help file <lol>.

Well, it's a great script now. Here is what it looks like:

;
; AutoIt v3.0
;

SoundPlay (@ScriptDir & "\WAVS\Robotz Menu Popup.wav")

#include <date.au3>
$thisday = StringMid("Sn,Mn,Tu,Wd,Th,Fr,Sa", StringInStr("SunMonTueWedThuFriSat", _DateDayOfWeek(@WDAY,1) ), 2)

ClipPut(@YEAR & '.'  & @MON & '.'  & @MDAY & '.' & $thisday & ", " & @Hour & "h" & @Min)

Exit
; finished

So whenever I need to append the date/time to any backup files I have, I used a compiled version of this script and I name files/folders with the resulting text string and this date/time format keeps them all properly sorted.

Thanks!