Problems retrieving time zone with version 4.5 sept 12 release

[pashaak]

The following code no longer works under version 4.5 (Retrieves full name of time zone)

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[MeasureTimeZoneSorD]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SysInfo.dll
SysInfoType=TIMEZONE_ISDST
IfCondition=(MeasureTimeZoneSorD=0)
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "([MeasureTimeZoneStandard])"]
IfFalseAction=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "([MeasureTimeZoneDaylight])"]
IfCondition=(MeasureTimeZoneSorD=-0)
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "(Time Zone Unavailable)"]
Group=LCARS-Clock

[MeasureTimeZoneStandard]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SysInfo
SysInfoType=TIMEZONE_STANDARD_NAME
Group=LCARS-Clock

[MeasureTimeZoneDayLight]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SysInfo
SysInfoType=TIMEZONE_DAYLIGHT_NAME
Group=LCARS-Clock

[BigTimeZone]
Meter=String
X=0r
Y=21r
FontColor=#LightGreenS#
FontFace=#FontFace#
FontSize=17
AntiAlias=1
Hidden=1
Text=
Group=LCARS-Clock

What's Up?

[balala]

The following code no longer works under version 4.5 (Retrieves full name of time zone)

What "no longer works" does mean? Because it does work for me. What do you expect it to do and it doesn't?

[pashaak]

It retrieves the full text name of the current time zone i.e. "Eastern Daylight Time". Now it just returns "0".

I Chased my tail for a little while, then realized that the Rainmeter upgrade was the only thing that was changed. Dowgraded to the previous beta version and everything works fine.

sorry for the lack of detail in my original post

Thank you.

[jsmorley]

It retrieves the full text name of the current time zone i.e. "Eastern Daylight Time". Now it just returns "0".

I Chased my tail for a little while, then realized that the Rainmeter upgrade was the only thing that was changed. Dowgraded to the previous beta version and everything works fine.

sorry for the lack of detail in my original post

Thank you.

Your code as posted works fine for me.

Make sure you have the latest version of Rainmeter, which as of this writing is 4.5.2 from https://www.rainmeter.net/

[balala]

Your code as posted works fine for me.

For me too, as said in my previous reply, so not sure...

[jsmorley]

The problem is with your example code...

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Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SysInfo.dll
SysInfoType=TIMEZONE_ISDST
IfCondition=(MeasureTimeZoneSorD=0)
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "([MeasureTimeZoneStandard])"]
IfFalseAction=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "([MeasureTimeZoneDaylight])"]
IfCondition=(MeasureTimeZoneSorD=-0)
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "(Time Zone Unavailable)"]
Group=LCARS-Clock

Try something like this:

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[MeasureTimeZoneStandard]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SysInfo
SysInfoType=TIMEZONE_STANDARD_NAME
Group=LCARS-Clock

[MeasureTimeZoneDayLight]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SysInfo
SysInfoType=TIMEZONE_DAYLIGHT_NAME
Group=LCARS-Clock

[MeasureTimeZoneSorD]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SysInfo.dll
SysInfoType=TIMEZONE_ISDST
IfCondition=(MeasureTimeZoneSorD=0)
IfTrueAction=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "([MeasureTimeZoneStandard])"]
IfFalseAction=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "([MeasureTimeZoneDaylight])"]
IfCondition2=(MeasureTimeZoneSorD=-0)
IfTrueAction2=[!SetOption BigTimeZone Text "(Time Zone Unavailable)"]

[BigTimeZone]
Meter=String
FontSize=17
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1

You can only have one IfCondition per measure, if you need more than one, you need IfCondition2=, IfCondition3= etc.

Also, you need the test that sets the Text with the value of the measure(s) to come after the measures it's using, or they will just be empty. The way IfCondition works is that it only fires the action(s) once when the condition changes between "false" and "true" (or "true" and "false"). So when your code was executed, there were no values for those two measures yet, so they were not set to anything. (well the default "0") Since the "test" didn't change value on subsequent updates, the IfCondition(s) didn't fire, and the meter just stayed zero.

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[pashaak]

Thank You very much. I can't Believe I Didn't Number the second if conditon....Sloppy Programming on my part. Thans again!