How to get the current date with Monkey c

Former Member over 9 years ago

In some threads I saw People using "Calendar.info(...)" but nothing like this can be found in the documentation.
What is the easiest way to show the date without deriving year, month and day from the timestamp ?
Thanks

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Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

what adjustment is it for 12/24 hour mode? time.somethingelse? +AMPM doesnt work for me either. I see no documentation about a 12/24 hour mode and AMPM

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jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

That is from people using this "using" at the beginning of their code.

using Toybox.Time.Gregorian as Calendar;

and to use it:

var now = Time.now();
    	var time = Calendar.info(now, Time.FORMAT_SHORT);

and to use the parts, something like this:

str=hour.format("%d")+":"+time.min.format("%02d")+":"+time.sec.format("%02d")+AMPM;

("hour" in this code is time.hour, but adjusted for 12/24 hr mode, and ampm as "a" or "p" in 12 hr mode)
Other parts of "time" when doing this are the day of week, date, month year and if you use FORMAT_MEDIUM, you'll get "May" instead of 5 for the month, for example.

Former Member over 9 years ago

With the "using", everything makes sense now.
Will try it right away.
Thanks
Uwe

Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

what adjustment is it for 12/24 hour mode? time.somethingelse? +AMPM doesnt work for me either. I see no documentation about a 12/24 hour mode and AMPM

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

Sys.getDeviceSettings().is24Hour

if false:

hour%12, and if hour is then 0, make it 12

if the original hour>=12 it's PM