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[+MtnGoat50]

I'm working on a cartridge that involves touring a park. One particular area of the park is closed in the Winter. Can I design the cartridge so it will automatically skip that area during the winter?

[+Geofellas]

I'm working on a cartridge that involves touring a park. One particular area of the park is closed in the Winter. Can I design the cartridge so it will automatically skip that area during the winter?

 

You could include some author code that uses the lua function os.date (google "lua os.date" for more info) to determine the current date and insert logic based on that. This is definitely stepping outside the builder

 

Here is some code (incomplete) that I have been playing with in case it helps:

 

dow = {"Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday" }
month = {"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" }

function ztimerEvery5seconds:OnTick()
-- #GroupDescription=Script --
-- #Comment=Script Comment --

local i = os.date("!%c")
Wherigo.MessageBox{Text=[[]] .. i .. [[

Processed = ]] .. getdow(i) .. [[ ]] .. getdom(i) .. [[ ]]  .. getmonth(i) .. [[(]] .. getmonthnum(i) .. [[)]]  .. getyear(i)  .. [[ ]]  .. get24hour(i) .. [[:]] .. getmin(i) .. [[:]]  .. getsec(i),}
end

function getdow(t)
for j = 1 , 7, 1 do
if string.sub(dow[j], 1, 3) == string.sub(t,1,3) then
return dow[j]
end
end
end

function getmonth(t)
for j = 1 , 12, 1 do
if string.sub(month[j], 1, 3) == string.sub(t,5,7) then
return month[j]
end
end
end

function getmonthnum(t)
for j = 1 , 12, 1 do
if string.sub(month[j], 1, 3) == string.sub(t,5,7) then
return j
end
end
end

function getdom(t)
return tonumber(string.sub(t,9,10))
end

function getyear(t)
return tonumber(string.sub(t,21,24))
end

function get24hour(t)
return tonumber(string.sub(t,12,13))
end
function getmin(t)
return tonumber(string.sub(t,15,16))
end

function getsec(t)
return tonumber(string.sub(t,18,19))
end

[+MtnGoat50]

Cool!! I think that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!!!!