Forums mIRC Help Altering the time stamps ...

When I type: /time .. I get: Thursday February 7 2008 -- 10:24:00 +01:00 .. in status!

When I type: /say $fulldate .. I get: Thu Feb 07 10:24:00 2008 .. in the channel I type it in.

I wonder how could I change the time stamp format? Both of them..

I would like "/time" to give: Thursday 07 February 2008 -- 10:24:00 GMT +01:00

And I would like the "/say $fulldate" to give: Thursday 07 February 2008 - 10:24:00

Anyone know where to find this?
I know how to manage timestamps, but I cannot find where to manage them.

/time and $fulldate are fixed formats. If you want to play around with the format of a time string, look at $asctime(), i.e.:


See /help $asctime() for the formatting details.

/time is returned in a format chosen by the server. You can catch the response with a raw 391 event.

Ack! Was thinking $time!

So it is not possible to mess with?

I got confused now..

You can't change the output of $fulltime. You can display time in a custom format using $asctime as Bekar described.

/time is returned by the IRC server, you can change the display locally using a raw 391 event.

alias mytime { return $time(dddd dd mmm yyyy -- hh:nn:tt zzz) }
alias myfulldate { return $time(dddd dd mmm yyyy -- hh:nn:tt) }

//say $mytime
//say $myfulldate

Obviously you can rename those to something better. If you want $mytime to work as an alias, change "return" to /say and add a check to make sure that the $active window is either a channel or a query.

Thanks a lot!