I am playing around with extracting data with the MAXURL WEATHER REPORT

Is there a way to convert the Unix UTC value that I get for "sunset" into "human readable values"

Yr    Month    Day Hr    Min    Sec

Is there a way to convert the Unix UTC value that I get for "sunset" into "human readable values"
Yr	Month	Day Hr	Min	Sec


how-to-convert-unix-utc

The easiest way is to use the JavaScript Date object. Here is an example patch:

function timestamp(val) {
    var d = new Date();
    outlet(0, d.toDateString());
}


There are many formatting options - this is just one possibility. Check out the JavaScript Date . Reference for more details:

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

function timestamp(val) {
	var d = new Date();
	outlet(0, d.toDateString());
}


http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp


That is what I was looking for ... not knowing I had to use javascript (whole new world for me).

I have replaced the java for d.toString(); to get the time as well (I read the exercises).

How can I extract the time only (hour and min) to numberbox ?

Also I seem to only get the actual time of the day and not the sunset as I am looking for.

Is there something wrong the way I call it ?

Thank you so much.
That is what I was looking for ... not knowing I had to use javascript (whole new world for me).

I have replaced the java for d.toString(); to get the time  as well (I read the exercises).

How can I extract the time only  (hour and min) to numberbox ?
Would that with fromsymbol ?
I tried but doesn't seem to work

Also I seem to only get the actual time of the day and not the sunset as I am looking for.
Is there something wrong the way I call it ?


ouups my bad was typing too fast. the correct code line would be:

This way you set the time to the Unix timestamp. The multiplication is because the unix time counts seconds since Jan 1st 1970 00:00:00 while JavaScript operates on milliseconds.

The full code for just outputting the time would be:

the left outlet will give you the hours (0 -23) the right one the minutes (0 - 59)

ouups my bad was typing too fast. the correct code line would be: 

function timestamp(val) {
    var d = new Date (val * 1000);
    outlet(0, d.getHours());
    outlet(1, d.getMinutes());
}

the left outlet will give you the hours (0 -23) the right one the minutes (0 - 59)


only now i was able to see your patch with the notes. Here is one more version, that I hope is closer to what you are looking for.

outlets = 2;
function timestamp(val) {
    var d = new Date (val * 1000);
    outlet(0, d.getUTCFullYear(), d.getUTCMonth() + 1, d.getUTCDate(), d.getUTCHours(), d.getUTCSeconds());
    outlet(1,d.getTimezoneOffset());
}



this one gives you a list out of the left outlet with the numbers for 'Year' 'Month' 'Date' 'Hours' 'Seconds'. All in GMT/UTC without the timezone offset. The right outlet will send the Timerzone offset from UTC/GMT in minutes. This way you can easily get all infos by unpacking the list.

outlets = 2;
function timestamp(val) {
	var d = new Date (val * 1000);
	outlet(0, d.getUTCFullYear(), d.getUTCMonth() + 1, d.getUTCDate(), d.getUTCHours(), d.getUTCSeconds());
	outlet(1,d.getTimezoneOffset());
}



this one gives you a list out of the left outlet with the numbers for 'Year' 'Month' 'Date' 'Hours' 'Seconds'. All in GMT/UTC without the timezone offset. The right outlet will send the Timerzone offset from UTC/GMT in minutes. This way you can easily get all infos by unpacking the list.


...note that one has do add +1 to the month as for some odd reasons the JS Date objects reports that as 0 - 11 instead of 1 - 12 (not in accordance to all the other infos)...

Wow thanks .. I am very happy to learn a bit of javascript from you.

I wrote this code to get the minutes .. I wonder if that is correct

There is something funny though ... the time doesn't seem right

Wow thanks ..  I am very happy to learn a bit of javascript from you.

I wrote this code to get the minutes .. I  wonder if that is correct

outlets = 3;
function timestamp(val) {
	var d = new Date (val * 1000);
	outlet(0, d.getUTCHours());
	outlet(1, d.getUTCMinutes());
	outlet(2,d.getTimezoneOffset());
}

sunset is 18:23 for today
but I get 8:16 ?
and timezone offset 240 ?

the code looks fine. A difference of about 8 min is strange though. You can check the Unix timepstamp that you send to the [js] easily on a webpage. there are a lot of converter pages around (i.e. 

 Do those pages give a different reading than Max?

the timezone offset expresses the difference in time between your local time (the time zone of your computer) and UTC/GMT time. 240 means that you are 240 minutes ahead of UTC/GMT.

the code looks fine. A difference of about 8 min is strange though. You can check the Unix timepstamp that you send to the [js] easily on a webpage. there are a lot of converter pages around (i.e. http://www.epochconverter.com/). Do those pages give a different reading than Max?

I get the ID for Ottawa on
http://openweathermap.org/city/7626289

I put that number ID in the URL patch
and the numbers don't make sens

Just to give you an update (and who ever has the same problem)

I was successful by changing the ID on the url by the city name, country

So much thanks again, it works perfectly :-)

Just to give you an update (and who ever has the same problem)
I was successful by changing the ID on the url by the city name, country
in my case ottawa,ca

So much thanks again, it works perfectly :-)


last days I didn't had time to check here.

How to convert Unix UTC ?