Timerfunction

[Kage 37]

hello,

does annyone now how to make a month timerfunction

 

this one ia a function for a day

setTimeout(timerFunction, 24*60*60*1000)

 

but the months are different evrytime like 30 31 28 (leapyear 29)

 

thanks

 

also is there a way to make a local for the next month

i know how to change for example 30 min later

os.date("%H;%M, os.time()+30*60)

for month it is

os.date("%B")

but how for next month

 

thanks again

Edited February 7, 2017 by Kage

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[Guest FredrikKarlsson]

Ok, programming with dates and times are best left to the build in functions, I think. 

 

Have a look at the Lua documentation for os.date and os.time.

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os.time extract time information, possibly for manipulation, and os.date formats it to a new time specification.

 

Ok, so one quick solution to your problem is to do this:

 

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Please note the trick here:

 

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You convert the month to a number, add one to thet number, and then apply a modulo 12 on that number.

This is a common trick in programming that handles the case of december (month 12). If you add 1 to that, you get 13, but if you performa an integer (whole number) division with 12 on that number and keep only what remains, which is what the modulo action in maths does, then you get 1 back. Which is the month that follows 12.

 

Hope this helps.