Check out my script for displaying the Day - Date - Month - Year

[Old Fellow]

On a project I wanted to display the date as below

Sunday 2nd May 2021

This is how I like to read the date, here in the UK.

I found an old thread and got the basics of how to get near what I wanted.

So I elaborated on the script and came up with this

-- Day Of The Week
DayName = {}
DayName[1]= "Sunday";
DayName[2]= "Monday";
DayName[3]= "Tuesday";
DayName[4]= "Wednesday";
DayName[5]= "Thursday";
DayName[6]= "Friday";
DayName[7]= "Saturday";
Result1 = String.ToNumber(System.GetDate(DATE_FMT_DAYOFWEEK) );
-- End Of - Day Of The Week

-- Day Of The Month
DayOfTheMonth = {}
DayOfTheMonth[1] = "1st"
DayOfTheMonth[2] = "2nd"
DayOfTheMonth[3] = "3rd"
DayOfTheMonth[4] = "4th"
DayOfTheMonth[5] = "5th"
DayOfTheMonth[6] = "6th"
DayOfTheMonth[7] = "7th"
DayOfTheMonth[8] = "8th"
DayOfTheMonth[9] = "9th"
DayOfTheMonth[10] = "10th"
DayOfTheMonth[11] = "11th"
DayOfTheMonth[12] = "12th"
DayOfTheMonth[13] = "13th"
DayOfTheMonth[14] = "14th"
DayOfTheMonth[15] = "15th"
DayOfTheMonth[16] = "16th"
DayOfTheMonth[17] = "17th"
DayOfTheMonth[18] = "18th"
DayOfTheMonth[19] = "19th"
DayOfTheMonth[20] = "20th"
DayOfTheMonth[21] = "21st"
DayOfTheMonth[22] = "22nd"
DayOfTheMonth[23] = "23rd"
DayOfTheMonth[24] = "245th"
DayOfTheMonth[25] = "25th"
DayOfTheMonth[26] = "26th"
DayOfTheMonth[27] = "27th"
DayOfTheMonth[28] = "28th"
DayOfTheMonth[29] = "29th"
DayOfTheMonth[30] = "30th"
DayOfTheMonth[31] = "31st"
Result2 = String.ToNumber(System.GetDate(DATE_FMT_DAY));
-- End Of - Day Of The Month

-- Month
MonthName = {}
MonthName[1]= "January";
MonthName[2]= "February";
MonthName[3]= "March";
MonthName[4]= "April";
MonthName[5]= "May";
MonthName[6]= "June";
MonthName[7]= "July";
MonthName[8]= "August";
MonthName[9]= "September";
MonthName[10]= "October";
MonthName[11]= "November";
MonthName[12]= "December";
Result3 = String.ToNumber(System.GetDate(DATE_FMT_MONTH));
-- End Of - Month

-- Year
Year = System.GetDate(DATE_FMT_YEAR);
-- End Of Year

-- Complete Output
--Paragraph.SetText("Paragraph1", DayName[Result1].." "..DayOfTheMonth[Result2].." "..MonthName[Result3].." "..Year);
Dialog.Message("Todays Date",DayName[Result1].." "..DayOfTheMonth[Result2].." "..MonthName[Result3].." "..Year, MB_OK, MB_ICONINFORMATION, MB_DEFBUTTON1);
-- End Of - Complete Output

I was wondering what you pro's thought of it . Does it look ok or could it be made simpler ?

I have had lots and lots of help and not really given nowt back...

Somebody may find this useful.

I will test it out each day and see if I have things right..

[Sina Dehghani]

Great, but you can define this code as a new function in Global Function to get rid of copying and pasting code ...

[herrin]

other way (date.lua)

globals:
require"date";

[Old Fellow]

Thanks herrin.

I have copied your script but I must be doing something wrong.
I get errors.

Looks a whole lot neater than my effort.

Any chance you could up an example for me to look at please, if you get a mo.

[Old Fellow]

herrin..

What I have noticed about your script is the "nd"

If it was the 01 or 21 or 31 it should end in "st"
If it was 02 or 22 it should end in "nd"
if it was 03 or 23 is should end in "rd"
The rest should end in "th"

Can your script accommodate this ?


I was Goggling round and found this

prettyNow = os.date('%A %B %d %Y at %I:%M:%S %p')

which I altered to

prettyNow = os.date('%A %B %d %Y at %H:%M')
Dialog.Message("Notice", prettyNow, MB_OK, MB_ICONINFORMATION, MB_DEFBUTTON1);

I still like when it says " st, nd, rd , th "

[Old Fellow]

seems I am missing a "module" "luaddate" madule

No idea what this is, or where to find it...

Looking now..

[Old Fellow]

Think I have the module now..

from here

https://forums.indigorose.com/forum/autoplay-media-studio-8-5/autoplay-media-studio-8-plugins-and-addons/302280-date-plugin

[herrin]

[Old Fellow]

That looks cool herrin..