Zugg Software :: View topic - Mud Time

Novice Joined: 19 Jan 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Austria

Hi there!
i would like to set the Timer to the MUD-Time

if i type "time", the first line says:
It is 7am, on the Day of the Sun

in the towns, you hear clock towers, which looks like:

The clock tower chimes the hour of 9am.
The clock tower chimes the hour of 12 noon.

now i would like to set my timer to the mud time, because all shops have opening hours and some places are only accesible at certain times.

anybody who has got a script for that?
(i'd set my timer to 24 hours, allthought, the mud time is in am and pm, but i'd like to see the differents between night and day)

thx for your help

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1116 Location: USA

When you say you want to set the timer to the mud-time, do you mean the tick timer? or do you mean just a regular alarm type timer?

If you are talking about the tick timer, then you'll first have to get a rough estimate of how long a mud-hour is, whether that's 120 seconds or 60 seconds or whatever. Then set your tick timer to this and start the tick timer. Once you've got that set up, then you'd have a couple triggers:

#trigger {The clock tower chimes the hour of (%d)({am|pm}).} {#ts;#var hour %1;#if (%2=pm) {#add hour 12}}

#trigger {The clock tower chimes the hour of 12 ({noon|midnight}).} {#ts;#if (%1=noon) {#var hour 12} {#var hour 00}}

Most muds that I've been to don't have an exact tick counter, it varys +/- a few seconds which is why I use #ts, to tweak the tick timer. Now, you say you only hear the clock towers when you're in town, so you won't always have those triggers going off. So, what you probably want to do open up the tick timer and in the 'Timeout Command' textbox, type 'checkhour' or whatever you want to call the alias that's below.

#alias checkhour {#add hour 1;#if (@hour=24) {#var hour 00}}

Update the Timeout Margin to 5-10 seconds, depending on your taste. The point is, you want the Timeout command to go off BEFORE the triggers. If you don't then you'll be off by an hour. Finally, to see what time it is, just create a status line displaying the hour:

#st {Time: @hour}

That way, you just have to glance at the status line to see what hour it is on the mud.

All this code is untested, just going by the online help files, you may have to tweak it a bit.

Iljhar