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Beginner Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 21

Have a couple triggersfrom zmud that use %ctime

%ctime the number of seconds you have been connected to the MUD

if i do a #say %ctime i always get 0

ideas?

Apprentice Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 152

..and you ARE connected to some mud?

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

If you want a timestamp and you're testing offline, you can try using %time instead. I use %time("ss.zzz") for timing things that take less than a minute. Just be aware that you'll have to account for wraparound (timer starting at 59 seconds and ending at 2 seconds, for example) because it's your actual system clock time.

Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:32 pm

Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:16 pm

It's working fine for me. I just connected to one of the sponsored sessions that're there when cmud's installed and tried it. You must be offline when you're doing it.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

%ctime does not increment at all when offline. It remains at 0 before your first connection attempt since opening the program, and between your first logoff/disconnect and subsequent login it will remain at whatever value it was when you went offline. When you connect again, it gets reset to 0.

Beginner Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 21

umm yes i am connected to a mud, i dont test try or change any scripts when offline. whats a Sponsored session? one of the 6 or so muds that are default connections?

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:14 am

Yeah, the ones that pay to be on the front page. It was Achaea if I remember right, just connected and typed "#say %ctime" and it worked right off.

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:04 pm

This might be a factor, or might not...
I play Simutronics' Modus Operandi. It has a dual login system...one must log into a server to obtain account info, and then log into the actual game server. Could that have something to do with my problem?

Beginner Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 21

I play aardwolf and the conection timer on my status bar works

any other ideas?
maybe ill try a new session with no tirggers or aliases added

Beginner Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 21

If i connect with a new session %ctime works.

The session i been using imported my zmud file when i installed the fresh copy of 1.24

Ideas why %ctime wont work with session i been using?

Beginner Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 21

if anyone cares %ctime works on all my different sessions without captures or with captures disabled

so maybe a #capture bug

sorry to bring up an old one but someone might wana know

Tex

Wanderer Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 76

I'm experiencing this as well. I'm connected to a MUD (please, don't ask me if I'm sure I'm connected), actively playing, and any attempt to print out (or store in a variable) the value of %ctime results in '0'. I think this session was also the result of a .MUD file import.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:01 am

%ctime also continues to stay at 0 for me.