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Allo there. I am trying to setup random occurrences for different days of the week (Monday gets X bonus, Tuesday gets Y detriment, Wednesday get Z event, etc), but I'm having trouble setting up the declarations. So basically, this might be really simple, or it might be really hard depending on how we think about this. Here's the equation I found that seems perfect for this operation:

int dayofweek(int d, int m, int y)
{
return (d+=m<3?y--:y-2,23*m/9+d+4+y/4-y/100+y/400)%7;
}

Now, I'm running a ROM/Rot off a UNIX system and the mud is coded in C. I don't know of a way to tell the mud "IS_MONDAY" or to break down the server/system time to plug it into that equation. So either I need help figuring out how to tell the mud what day of the week it is, or I need help figuring out how to utilize this input-the-date equation to give me the information.

Robby

man -a mktime

You're trying to create a function you don't need to.

struct tm time = *localtime( &current_time );

From there you can point to 'tm_wday'.

Thanks man. I am not a coding newbie (well, that sounds a little funny all things considered) but lets just say I hate the time system in UNIX... Thank you again,

Robby

I hate the time system in UNIX

Not sure what other system you programmed on, but in MSDOS world the same structure exists as well as the same function, mktime. At least in the world of the MSDOS C-Runtime library (which includes C++ as well, I believe).

Since C existed on Unix before MSDOS I would say that MSDOS ripped it off, but, as they say, imitation is the truest form of flattery =).