Lua - Get current day?

Question

I do not know where to ask about this kinda stuff so I thought why not ask Stackoverflow?

I wonder if it's possible to get the current day somehow, with Lua?

Something about os.date() but I have no idea how to do it. Or maybe os.time() ?

like:

local day = os.time()somethingsomething

And then check

if (day == 'monday') then
print('It is monday')
elseif (day == 'tuesday') then
print('It is tuesday!')
end

Seagull · Answer 1 · 2014-03-20T07:53:47.330

3

Why not to Google it? There is an excelent article here. See http://www.lua.org/pil/22.1.html

Try print(os.date("%A")) for getting day of week.

To check if it's monday now you can write any of those conditions.

if (os.date("%A") == "Monday") then
  print("It's Monday")
end
if (os.date("*t").wday == 1) then
  print("It's Monday")
end

edited Mar 20 '14 at 07:53

answered Mar 19 '14 at 21:47

Seagull

But how can I make a check if today is friday or monday for example? – Mar 19 '14 at 22:28
@user3036459 This is trivial, as you see. I have edited my answer. – Seagull Mar 20 '14 at 07:56

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '14 at 22:45

If you need the named days:

local daysoftheweek={"Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thrusday","Friday","Saturday"}
local day=daysoftheweek[os.date("*t").wday]
print(day)

Or you can just use os.date("*t").wday and it will return 1 for Sunday, 2 for Monday, etc.

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