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Function to get system time
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| Posted by
| Shadoweave
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| Wed 26 Sep 2007 08:27 PM (UTC) |
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| | Hello, I was wondering what is the function that allows you to print the current system time, I want to add the time to my prompt. I have tried searching in the help file for this function, but I haven't found it, perhaps I have missed it. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Zeno
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| Reply #1 on Wed 26 Sep 2007 08:42 PM (UTC) |
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| | http://www.lua.org/pil/22.1.html |
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| Posted by
| Shadoweave
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| Reply #2 on Thu 27 Sep 2007 05:52 AM (UTC) |
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| | Thanks, but how do I get it to show the time in miliseconds too? I've only managed to get it to show the time in seconds | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
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| Reply #3 on Thu 27 Sep 2007 04:36 PM (UTC) |
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| | By default, Lua doesn't provide the current system time in milliseconds because that information is (I believe) not ANSI C. I think this would require an addition by Nick to the API extensions. |
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| Posted by
| tobiassjosten
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| Reply #4 on Thu 27 Sep 2007 04:47 PM (UTC) |
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| | In Lua, try using the os.date() function. |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
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| Reply #5 on Thu 27 Sep 2007 04:58 PM (UTC) |
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| | How do you get milliseconds with that? I might be missing something obvious, but I don't see it in the documentation... |
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| Posted by
| Shadoweave
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| Reply #6 on Thu 27 Sep 2007 05:38 PM (UTC) |
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In Lua, try using the os.date() function.
I am using that to display the time, it doesn't display milliseconds
I've seen someone using GetInfo (232) and dividing it by 60, but it doesn't work correctly, it displays a minute having more than 60 seconds. Any ideas?
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| Posted by
| Zeno
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| Reply #7 on Thu 27 Sep 2007 06:53 PM (UTC) Amended on Thu 27 Sep 2007 07:36 PM (UTC) by Zeno
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| Perhaps Lua doesn't support it.
So I tried looking around in other languages. Python doesn't seem to have it either.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html
You may be able to take the raw time and divide it until you get ms. |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #8 on Fri 28 Sep 2007 10:59 PM (UTC) |
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| GetInfo (232) gives you a high resolution timer, but it isn't directly related to the system time.
I don't think standard C libraries, and therefore Lua, let you get time to less than 1 second resolution. |
- Nick Gammon
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