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kevintdiy
kevintdiy

Reputation: 181

lua program shows current time

This is a piece of lua script that displays the time. I cannot separate the numbers ie: time.hour, ":", to basically show hh:mm:ss 

time = os.date("*t")
print(time.hour .. time.min .. time.sec)

Upvotes: 11

Views: 24257

Answers (3)

bk57
bk57

Reputation: 21

local date = os.date('*t')
local time = os.date("*t")
print(os.date("%A, %m %B %Y | "), ("%02d:%02d:%02d"):format(time.hour, time.min, time.sec))`

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Upvotes: 2

Gavin
Gavin

Reputation: 499

For simply printing the time - extract what you want (the time) from the full date stamp string:

  > os.date():sub(9)
    12:30:39

This works on my PC ;). There may be a different date stamp string in your OS.

G

Upvotes: 2

Paul Kulchenko
Paul Kulchenko

Reputation: 26744

There are several ways to do this:

  1. Use string concatenation: print(time.hour .. ":" .. time.min .. ":" .. time.sec)

  2. Use formatting: print(("%02d:%02d:%02d"):format(time.hour, time.min, time.sec))

  3. Use table concatenation: print(table.concat({time.hour, time.min, time.sec}, ":"))

When you really need to format your string, my preference would be for #2. For time = {hour = 1, min = 20, sec = 5} this prints:

1:20:5
01:20:05
1:20:5

Upvotes: 10

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