Get current time

Former Member over 8 years ago

I'm trying to get the current time in a variable but its crashing my app

My code: var CurrentTime = getClockTime();

I need this as I'm using the System.Println to output to a text file and want to see when certain events happen?

a1234.garmin over 8 years ago

You should start with examples:
Garmin\SDK\connectiq-sdk-win-2.2.4\samples\Analog\source\

In your code should be the class specified.

Sys.getClockTime();

Sys is shortcut for Toybox.System class name, so you should add to the head of the .mc file following string:

using Toybox.System as Sys;

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Given this in your .mc file:

using Toybox.System as Sys;

you want to use:

var CurrentTime = Sys.getClockTime();

Former Member over 8 years ago

Thanks!

However when I do this I get "Obj" when I try to output this to a txt file.

Example:

System.println(xAccel + ","); //IL Get xAccel value 

            System.println(yAccel + ","); //IL Get yAccel value  

            System.println(zAccel + "," + "\n"); //IL Get zAccel value 

            var CurrentTime = Sys.getClockTime();

            System.println(CurrentTime);

On the last line of code I was expecting a time value but I get this: "-500,656,-531,Obj:"

Do I need to explicitly convert the time value that is returned? in C Sharp I would use "ToString();" ?

Thanks!

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

You need to get the "parts" and format it, as you don't get a string from the call. See the API documentation.

So something like

Sys.println(CurrentTime.hour.format("%d")+":"+CurrentTime.min.format("%02d"));

Former Member over 8 years ago

Thanks!