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    Offline Duffy

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    The Time
    « on: July 07, 2008, 11:20:03 pm »
    Where does the bot get the time information for time output from ?
    My bot tells me the wrong time (i guess GMT) but in germany we currently use gmt+2. Systemclock of the unix box is set correctly
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    Offline Nytridr

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #1 on: July 08, 2008, 10:42:14 am »
    When you do !time it should tell ya AO time

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    Rsbot: It is currently 08:37:27 July 8, 29482 Rubi-Ka Universal Time.
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    Offline grasfer

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 03:28:10 pm »
    Anyway to change the time it display to local time and not GMT?
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    Offline Glarawyn

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #3 on: July 09, 2008, 07:03:26 am »
    No, which is pretty much intentional. :)

    There is no decent way for php to figure out what your local timezone is (that I've found anyway.) Also, the bots logging and just about everything that deals with time is going by UTC time.
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    Offline grasfer

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #4 on: July 09, 2008, 11:44:57 am »
    Quote from: Glarawyn on July 09, 2008, 07:03:26 am
    No, which is pretty much intentional. :)

    There is no decent way for php to figure out what your local timezone is (that I've found anyway.) Also, the bots logging and just about everything that deals with time is going by UTC time.

    So i guess php can't even check the system clock or something?
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    Offline Noer

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #5 on: July 09, 2008, 12:11:43 pm »
    Quote from: grasfer on July 09, 2008, 11:44:57 am
    Quote from: Glarawyn on July 09, 2008, 07:03:26 am
    No, which is pretty much intentional. :)

    There is no decent way for php to figure out what your local timezone is (that I've found anyway.) Also, the bots logging and just about everything that deals with time is going by UTC time.

    So i guess php can't even check the system clock or something?

    Yes it can. "date" checks the local system time and takes in account of timezone settings on the server. But it may be that Bebot is setup to use UTC as timezone as thats what AO operates in.
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    Offline grasfer

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #6 on: July 09, 2008, 01:24:41 pm »
    Well, aint it possible to just remove AO code and just add a system clock check thingie? :P Or even add a system clock message to the !time message? :)
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    Offline Vrykolas

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #7 on: July 09, 2008, 02:05:45 pm »
    PHP can check the system clock on the server it is running on (not any game servers) but not on the client - this means that the bot is not aware of the time zone your guild mates are in (which may not be the same as your or the servers time zone).

    It is possible to modify the bot so that your members can manually change their own time zone, but this would only work correctly if displayed in tells (the guild chat would need to be a single timezone) or to be able to set a time zone for the bot, but this would require significant changes throughout the bot and any module that displays the time.

    Far better, imho, to consistently display the time in UTC and let your members work out the difference themselves.
    « Last Edit: July 09, 2008, 02:42:50 pm by Vrykolas »
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    Offline grasfer

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #8 on: July 09, 2008, 02:24:14 pm »
    ahhh, so the bot actually check the time from the chat server it is connected to and not from where the bot is running?
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    Offline Vrykolas

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #9 on: July 09, 2008, 02:42:19 pm »
    no it checks the server it is running on - I used the wrong terminology there.
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    Offline Noer

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #10 on: July 09, 2008, 02:51:25 pm »
    The easiest would just be to make a module for worldtime. :)

    So it shows the time in several timezones in a popup.
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    Offline grasfer

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #11 on: July 09, 2008, 03:50:33 pm »
    I'm sorry but i just can't see the logic here, if it check the time on server why can't it check the real time on the server and not gmt?
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    Offline Vrykolas

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #12 on: July 09, 2008, 04:42:06 pm »
    it could - all you have to do is go through all the bots files and change the occurences of the function call gmdate to date, and re-apply the changes every time you update to a new version of the bot or install a new mod
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    Offline Jovy

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #13 on: July 09, 2008, 06:23:55 pm »
    File: core/Time.php Line: 74

    change:
    $output = "It is currently ".gmdate("H:i:s F j,");

    to:
    $output = "It is currently ".date("H:i:s F j, Y");

    gmdate() returns only GMT. date() uses the configured timezone
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    Offline Vrykolas

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    Re: The Time
    « Reply #14 on: July 09, 2008, 07:12:11 pm »
    Quote from: Jovy on July 09, 2008, 06:23:55 pm
    File: core/Time.php Line: 74

    change:
    $output = "It is currently ".gmdate("H:i:s F j,");

    to:
    $output = "It is currently ".date("H:i:s F j, Y");

    that will only affect !time, and leave the timestamps on the last seen on alts, whois, the log, the afks the roster along with several other things unchanged and still using UTC
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