Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
If, by chance, an SQLite database is involved in your application, its strftime() function has a lot of very powerful date adjustment/conversion tools which might help. Even without an SQLite database in an application, I sometimes create an in memory database just so I can issue SELECT statements to calculate dates and times. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Brahmanathaswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: Roger Eller wrote: So that's where the old saying, your singing would bring a jersey cow to tears comes from.g LOL! Hmmm back on topic: Requirement: Generate current time list for a *future* time (for scheduled webinar) OK, so it is easy enough to get world time from the linux system. and FYI: LC internet date is, happily, using the standard RFC 2822 format and we can invoke this also in the shell: -R, --rfc-2822 output date and time in RFC 2822 format. Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600 Check it out now http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/tests/dates.lc --- ?lc # copied the list from html source at: # http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc put url file:/home/devhap/public_html/tests/zones.txt into tZones repeat for each line x in tZones set the itemdel to / if (the number of items of x) = 1 then put x into tCity else put item 2 of x into tCity end if put x into $TZ put shell(date -R) into tDTstring put tCity : tDTstring br / after tWorldTimes end repeat put tWorldTimes - but that doesn't actually meet my requirement. Sure: We get all the times to answer what time is it now? But what if I want to a future time e.g. February 1, 1:30PM HST and get a list of all dates/times across the globe that are concurrent with that future date/time? Maybe I'll ask that on Expert's Exchange... man timezone isn't getting me anything. I suppose one algorithm using LC native timedate conversion tools could be. (the future date in seconds) - (Current time in seconds local time) = advanceToFutureIncrement repeat for each concurrent time for now for all cities put (city[x] Time Right Now) + advanceToFutureIncrement into tFutureWebinarTimeInCity[x] put tFutureWebinarTimeInCity[x]br / after tListOfNextWebinarTimes end repeat of course the above needs a bit more code, but not much more... Brahmanathaswami ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
Pete- Friday, January 16, 2015, 9:30:21 AM, you wrote: Even without an SQLite database in an application, I sometimes create an in memory database just so I can issue SELECT statements to calculate dates and times. OK - after my initial shock, I have to say that's pretty clever. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
I implemented my little algorithm... it works fine with a combo of nix TZ look ups + LC's native convert tools pretty straight forward. Thanks Devin! Do nix TZ times shift for the Daily Light Savings times when that goes on and off in various zones? see: http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/tests/dates.lc CONVERT FUTURE TIME TO CONCURRENT FUTURE TIMES ## # Generate a list of concurrent dates and times in other countries and cities # for a declared future Hawaii (HST; UTC1000) date and time put url file:/home/devhap/public_html/tests/zones.txt into tTargetCities # Next webinar: 1:30PM in Hawaii on February 15 put Thu, 15 Feb 2015 13:30:00 -1000 into tNextWebinarInHawaii convert tNextWebinarInHawaii to seconds # get the current time in Hawaii put America/Honolulu into $TZ put shell(date -R) into tCurrentTimeInHawaii # the -R flag fetches the RSA convert tCurrentTimeInHawaii to seconds # substract current from future and get the time until next webinar increment put (tNextWebinarInHawaii - tCurrentTimeInHawaii) into tFutureIncrement # get a list of times now for several cities repeat for each line x in tTargetCities put x into $TZ put shell(date -R) into tDTstring # add the increment convert tDTstring to seconds put (tDtstring + tFutureIncrement) into tFutureDTstring # back to human readable: convert tFutureDTstring to internet date put x : tFutureDTstring br / after tTimeInOtherCities end repeat Peter Haworth wrote: If, by chance, an SQLite database is involved in your application, its strftime() function has a lot of very powerful date adjustment/conversion tools which might help. Even without an SQLite database in an application, I sometimes create an in memory database just so I can issue SELECT statements to calculate dates and times. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
Roger Eller wrote: So that's where the old saying, your singing would bring a jersey cow to tears comes from.g LOL! Hmmm back on topic: Requirement: Generate current time list for a *future* time (for scheduled webinar) OK, so it is easy enough to get world time from the linux system. and FYI: LC internet date is, happily, using the standard RFC 2822 format and we can invoke this also in the shell: -R, --rfc-2822 output date and time in RFC 2822 format. Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600 Check it out now http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/tests/dates.lc --- ?lc # copied the list from html source at: # http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc put url file:/home/devhap/public_html/tests/zones.txt into tZones repeat for each line x in tZones set the itemdel to / if (the number of items of x) = 1 then put x into tCity else put item 2 of x into tCity end if put x into $TZ put shell(date -R) into tDTstring put tCity : tDTstring br / after tWorldTimes end repeat put tWorldTimes - but that doesn't actually meet my requirement. Sure: We get all the times to answer what time is it now? But what if I want to a future time e.g. February 1, 1:30PM HST and get a list of all dates/times across the globe that are concurrent with that future date/time? Maybe I'll ask that on Expert's Exchange... man timezone isn't getting me anything. I suppose one algorithm using LC native timedate conversion tools could be. (the future date in seconds) - (Current time in seconds local time) = advanceToFutureIncrement repeat for each concurrent time for now for all cities put (city[x] Time Right Now) + advanceToFutureIncrement into tFutureWebinarTimeInCity[x] put tFutureWebinarTimeInCity[x]br / after tListOfNextWebinarTimes end repeat of course the above needs a bit more code, but not much more... Brahmanathaswami ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
Then there is this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Script-to-Generate-Concurrent-Times-tp4687781p4687891.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
That is hilarious, in a gruesome way. Bill On Jan 15, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Simon si...@asato-media.com wrote: Then there is this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Script-to-Generate-Concurrent-Times-tp4687781p4687891.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
On 1/14/2015 1:22 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Apparently on Windows the date command is used to SET the time. That's too bad. I briefly looked for an equivalent but couldn't find one. I did find this though, which applies to Linux-based systems: Valid locations for $TZ can be found here: /usr/share/zoneinfo -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
Apparently on Windows the date command is used to SET the time. The result is: The current date is: Wed 01/14/2015 Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy) On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:27 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 1/14/2015 10:27 AM, Devin Asay wrote: In your .lc script do this: put US/Mountain into $TZ # or whatever time zone you want to show put shell(date) into tDTstring Setting the $TZ variable right before called the date command returns the date/time the specified timezone. At least it works on the on-rev servers. Oh cool. It works on OS X too. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
Brahmanathaswami- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 6:15:07 PM, you wrote: Tomorrow we will decorate and worship our lovely New Jersey cows. OK - I have to say that sequence of words totally blindsided me. Did not see that coming. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
ha! I meant new Jersey cows. We retired all our crazy Holsteins to our 200 acres of guinea grass across the river. I say crazy' because Deepti was indeed a little wild... quite ready to chase you in a little Ranger and 2,000 pounds of white bovine rushing at you because she thinks you have a bucket of alfalfa cubes can be very scary... Whereas these new Jersey's are gentle as lambs. Years ago we had one Jersey that was so gentle that I could take a nap in the field with my head on her neck (she was also laying down) and when i would sing to her, her ears would perk up and tears would roll out of her eyes. I'm not kidding. OK enough of this natural world stuff! Back to $TZ manipulations! Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery www.HimalayanAcademy.com Mark Wieder wrote: Tomorrow we will decorate and worship our lovely New Jersey cows. OK - I have to say that sequence of words totally blindsided me. Did not see that coming. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
On January 14, 2015 8:56:27 PM CST, Brahmanathaswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: Years ago we had one Jersey that was so gentle that I could take a nap in the field with my head on her neck (she was also laying down) and when i would sing to her, her ears would perk up and tears would roll out of her eyes. Please sing to us too. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
Devin: thanks! set the $TZ a perfect little gift on this Happy Makara Sankranti/Thai Pongal. Big feast day in India today, sun moved into Capricorn, celebrate the post monsoon harvest. Tomorrow we will decorate and worship our lovely New Jersey cows. see: http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/tests/dates.lc Sweet - linux web server Cento OS6.2) How easy is this ?lc # copied the list from html source at: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc # stripped the html in BBEdit to save as plain text file # This server lives in San Francisco and we just leave the box TZ set # towhere it really is PST. Other time zones are calculated from there. put url file:/home/devhap/public_html/tests/zones.txt into tZones repeat for each line x in tZones # Extract the city from each line and leave the rest set the itemdel to / if (the number of items of x) = 1 then put x into tCity else put item 2 of x into tCity end if put x into $TZ # or whatever time zone(s) you want to show # easy enough to allow the user to enter or pick their city and # add a little AJAX for them to fetch their own time, too... put shell(date) into tDTstring put tCity : tDTstring br / after tWorldTimes end repeat put tWorldTimes - but now... trick will be: if you want to set a time in advance and then get your list from that and not from the current moment? put another way: this list is generated for this very moment at box time (PST) but if I want to set it to Future Webinar Date/Time and fetch calculated the World Times based on that future date/time... will need to think about that... Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery www.HimalayanAcademy.com Devin Asay wrote: In your .lc script do this: put US/Mountain into $TZ # or whatever time zone you want to show put shell(date) into tDTstring Setting the $TZ variable right before called the date command returns the date/time the specified timezone. At least it works on the on-rev servers. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Brahmanathaswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: We are planning to do some webinars. I am looking for a liveCode script that can read a time value on our web server and output a little array like: Honolulu: 1:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 San Franscisco 4:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 Chicago 6:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 Toronto: 6:30PM Sunday Jan 16 New York: 7:30PM Sunday Jan 16 Rio de Janeiro: 8:30PM Sunday Jan 16 Perth: 7:30 AM Monday Jan 16 Sydney: 11:30 Monday Jan 16 etc. Yes, I could probably find this as JS/php script, but no, i don't want to do that, as I'm a bit crazy about trying to stay with LC! Someone a few years ago showed me this; I can’t remember who. In your .lc script do this: put US/Mountain into $TZ # or whatever time zone you want to show put shell(date) into tDTstring Setting the $TZ variable right before called the date command returns the date/time the specified timezone. At least it works on the on-rev servers. HTH Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times
On 1/14/2015 10:27 AM, Devin Asay wrote: In your .lc script do this: put US/Mountain into $TZ # or whatever time zone you want to show put shell(date) into tDTstring Setting the $TZ variable right before called the date command returns the date/time the specified timezone. At least it works on the on-rev servers. Oh cool. It works on OS X too. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Script to Generate Concurrent Times
We are planning to do some webinars. I am looking for a liveCode script that can read a time value on our web server and output a little array like: Honolulu: 1:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 San Franscisco 4:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 Chicago 6:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 Toronto: 6:30PM Sunday Jan 16 New York: 7:30PM Sunday Jan 16 Rio de Janeiro: 8:30PM Sunday Jan 16 Perth: 7:30 AM Monday Jan 16 Sydney: 11:30 Monday Jan 16 etc. Yes, I could probably find this as JS/php script, but no, i don't want to do that, as I'm a bit crazy about trying to stay with LC! Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery www.HimalayanAcademy.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
