Appendix G: Lua Scripts X-600M Users Manual
Month 1-12
Day 1-31
Year 1900 – 3000
Hour 0-23
Minute 0-59
Second 0-59
time.copy(timeTable)
This function will return a copy of the time table passed to it.
time.getComponents(timeTable)
This function will return a table with the time in component form. The table has the following fields:
month 1-12
mday 1-31 (Day of month)
year year
hour 0-23
min 0-59
sec 0-59
wday 1-7 (Day of week. Sunday – Saturday)
yday 1-365 (Day of year)
isdst 0-1 (1 = Daylight Savings in Effect, 0 = Daylight Savings not in Effect)
The following example will print the current date and time to the debug console once a second.
Notice that this example has comments. Comments begin with two dashes “--” :
enableDebug()
while true do
sleep(1000)
--Get current time
currentTime = time.now()
--Get the component time
compTime = time.getComponents(currentTime)
print("compTime ")
print(" " .. compTime.month .. "/" .. compTime.mday .. "/" .. compTime.year)
print(" " .. compTime.hour .. ":" .. compTime.min .. ":" .. compTime.sec)
end
Note: Times created using time.now, time.seconds, and time.make, can be compared to each other,
added/subtracted from each other, multiplied/divided by each other, and can be converted to a
human readable date and time using the tostring function.
logToFile(logFileNumber)
This function will cause a logging event to occur on the log file specified by it's log file number 1- 5.
For example:
logToFile(1)
email(emailDef)
This function will cause an email message to be sent using the information found in the emailDef
table. For example:
emailDef = {
rcpt = "grp.admin",
subj = [[This is a test email.]],
body = [[The internal temp sensor reads]] .. io.owSensor1
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