Calculating Time for clock's preset

[menta]

Taylor, Do you mean calculate time from Mid or Noon ?

[skimask]

Taylor, Do you mean calculate time from Mid or Noon ?

Well, if 13 is 13 hours, and you want to check from 13:00 to 14:00, then I suppose it's from midnight...

[menta]

I think that calculating time from midnigh or noon will be a problem if end time of a program is after 00:00, e.g Start time - 13:00 , End time - 1:00

[menta]

If I didn't make it clear, a program can be:
Start 13:10:02
End 13:10:05
HH:MM:SS

[Darrel Taylor]

All those little details help.

Here's another possibility.
Run it once per second. Probably a gosub from the clock's code.

;--Start Time--
Start_Hours   CON 13
Start_Minutes CON 10
Start_Seconds CON 2
;--Stop Time--
Stop_Hours    CON 13
Stop_Minutes  CON 10
Stop_Seconds  CON 5

ProgON        VAR BIT
ProgON = 0

;--sub--
IF Hours = Start_Hours THEN
    IF Minutes = Start_Minutes THEN
        IF Seconds = Start_Seconds THEN
            ProgON = 1
        ENDIF
    ENDIF
ENDIF

IF Hours = Stop_Hours THEN
    IF Minutes = Stop_Minutes THEN
        IF Seconds = Stop_Seconds THEN
            ProgON = 0
        ENDIF
    ENDIF
ENDIF

[menta]

Thanks,
The main risk is if for some reason you loose a check, then you have missed the program start time

[skimask]

Thanks,
The main risk is if for some reason you loose a check, then you have missed the program start time

That's why you use LONG variables, calculate out the # of seconds since midnight then do a comparison, i.e.
If current_time_in_seconds > _on_time_in_seconds then
do-whatever

Or do it the hard way with WORDs and multiple IF/Then And/Or statements...