Parsing a date for countdown.lua

[jsmorley]

Well, both the show time and the time we are using are based on GMT, so your location shouldn't matter in one sense, but will matter as the result is "observed" by you.

I'm not a fan of the brute force +1 on the Calc measure myself.

Since the "time" of the show is undefined, you might change the Lua to use:

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function GetDays(month, day, year, measureName)

	local showTime = os.time({year=year, month=month, day=day, hour=23, min=59, sec=59, isdst=false})
	local nowTime = os.time(os.date('!*t'))
	local daysDiff = math.floor((showTime - nowTime ) / 86400)

	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', measureName, 'Formula', math.abs(daysDiff))
	
end

That will set the "time" of the show to the last minute of the day it airs on instead of the first.

Another thing you might try is to test against your local time, rather than against GMT.

local nowTime = os.time(os.date('*t'))

That might give a better sense of things as observed by you in your location. Now that I chew on it a bit, I think that makes more sense, since the time of the show is undefined, and this might be better relative to your local time.

[jsmorley]

You can do a little debugging, seeing what the real values are, by changing the Lua to:

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function GetDays(month, day, year, measureName)

	local showTime = os.time({year=year, month=month, day=day, hour=23, min=59, sec=59, isdst=false})
	local nowTime = os.time(os.date('*t'))
	local daysDiff = math.floor((showTime - nowTime ) / 86400)
	
	weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds = FormatSeconds(showTime - nowTime)
	print(days..' days ', hours..' hours ', minutes..' minutes ', seconds..' seconds')
	
	SKIN:Bang('!SetOption', measureName, 'Formula', math.abs(daysDiff))
	
end

function FormatSeconds(secondsArg)

	local weeks = math.floor(secondsArg / 604800)
	local remainder = secondsArg % 604800
	local days = math.floor(remainder / 86400)
	local remainder = remainder % 86400
	local hours = math.floor(remainder / 3600)
	local remainder = remainder % 3600
	local minutes = math.floor(remainder / 60)
	local seconds = remainder % 60
	return weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds

end

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[StArL0rd84]

Thanks, but the only thing that seems to have any effect on the bar (For me at least) is the brute force method.
I realize that day seven would never fill up, but hey, at least the bar shows what time has elapsed.

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[jsmorley]

Strange, unless I'm missing some "Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey" logic here, what I just posted feels like it should work right in all cases in all locations. It's based on the "local time", which I probably should have done from the start, given that the show time is undefined.