Can this be done ?

[HVR]

I would like to know if it would be possible to have a time script which only gives the time in Eastern standard time.

Something like:

HVR !est
[bot] It is now 4:23 P.M. E.S.T.

I would be grateful for any help with this.

[TCL_no_TK]

Assuming the bot is running on UTC (+0000) time

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 bind pub -|- !est pub:est

 proc pub:est {nick host hand chan text} {
  puthelp "PRIVMSG $chan :It is now [clock format [clock scan "5 hours ago"] -format "%H:%M %p"] E.S.T"
 }

[HVR]

thank you very much for coding this


the bot is running on GMT -6 I believe

installed and have the following result:

[21:39] <Burke> !est
[21:39] <RadioChick> It is now 15:39 PM E.S.T

My questions now would be, what do I change to get the time moved ahead 6 hours, and, how do I get it to display in regular time, not 24 hour format ?

[TCL_no_TK]

EST is 5 hours behind UTC/GTM, so we would need to use

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 bind pub -|- !est pub:est

 proc pub:est {nick host hand chan text} {
  puthelp "PRIVMSG $chan :It is now [clock format [clock scan "1 hour"] -format "%I:%M %p"] E.S.T"
 }

and we use %I not %H if you want it in 12 hours not 24 hours.

Eggdrop goes off the shell's time, but i belive there is a patch to fix this available from the files page on the main website. But the settings are in eggdrop.conf file

[HVR]

very cool !!!!!

thank you so much !!!!!!!!!!!