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How and where does mIrc get it time from? #10925 13/02/03 06:03 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 10 B Bonnie OP Pikka bird
OP Bonnie Pikka bird B Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 10	Hi All I'm trying to work out a script that will read a file/schedule and issue a command to trigger another script. I can make mIRC do that. The problem comes in trying to get the script to with in 30 seconds of the actual time needed. The command needs to be given at 59 minutes 30 seconds. I had it set up and repeating "timer 1 60" that sometime hit at 5 seconds and again at 57 seconds. Most of the time it was rendom seconds. Is there away for mIRC to alway know the time, read the schedule and send the command right on the mark? I have looked at $time and gmt. They would work if there was a way for mIRC to read the time all that time. I real need any ideas or help on this. Thank you all Bonnie

Re: How and where does mIrc get it time from? #10926 14/02/03 01:00 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 332 Louisiana, USA C Cheech Fjord artisan
Cheech Fjord artisan C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 332 Louisiana, USA	not really sure what your askin but perhaps look into $ctime

Re: How and where does mIrc get it time from? #10927 14/02/03 01:29 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 143 Sheffield, UK A Aubs Vogon poet
Aubs Vogon poet A Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 143 Sheffield, UK	Would something like this be of use? from the help file: (/help Timers) [help] If you specify the -m or -h switch, this indicates that the interval delay is in milliseconds. Note: The -h switch creates a high-resolution multimedia timer. This type of timer should only be used in critical timer situations since it uses system resources heavily. [/help] Don't know if it's of any use, I don't even know what they are for/how they work/how much more system resources they use. I suppose they are supposed to be more "acurate"? Last edited by Aubs; 14/02/03 01:30 PM. Aubs.

Re: How and where does mIrc get it time from? #10928 14/02/03 02:55 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,962 Norwich, UK S starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood
starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,962 Norwich, UK	/timer does have a [time] parameter which allows you set a specific time for the timer to start running. So for instance /timer 15:59 1 30 echo -a moo would mean that mIRC waited until 15:59 and then started the timer, so after another 30 seconds it echoed 'moo' to the active window. Using this and some $asctime calculations you can make a timer to go off every hour within a second of the specified time. I think you wanted it to go off every hour at xx:59:30, so that's what I did here: Code: alias hourly { if ($1 == off) { timerhourly off halt } var %hours = $asctime(HH) timerhourly $+($iif($regex($asctime(nn:ss),/^59:[2-5][0-9]$/),$iif(%hours == 23,00,$calc(%hours + 1)),%hours),:59) 1 30 hourly if ($1 != on) { ####commands here#### } } Just use /hourly on to start the timer and /hourly off to stop it. I haven't fully tested the alias but it should work fine. There might also be an easier way to do this, I haven't even looked at most of /timer's switches. Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and stupid comments are intentional.

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