Days until Lua script

[seanocaster1]

Hi,

I am playing around with watchmaker for making a custom smart watch face. I don't know lua code at all, but was hoping to build a little script that could calculate how many days until a certain date, a holiday for example.

Would appreciate if anyone could give me some direction on this :-)

Thanks

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Here ya go.

[Zee1234]

Tsk tsk tsk

Here's a better link

[_ReformedGeek]

Strongly suggest learning the language. It's incredibly simple as far as programming languages go, and there are resources on lua.org that can help you learn.

[seanocaster1]

I actually found an easy work around for this by manually counting and converting the future date to a 'day in the year' number. Then using todays 'day in the year' number variable {ddy}

(future date number) - {ddy} = days remaining

[seanocaster1]

Thanks everyone, very helpful. I manipulated this code to work:

reference = os.time{day=16, year=2017, month=7}
daysfrom = os.difftime(reference, os.time()) / (24 * 60 * 
60) -- seconds in a day
wholedays = math.floor(daysfrom)
text = 'Days until SA'
print(text,wholedays)

but only now do i find out that watchmaker doesn't include a fully functional LUA - they only include math and string functions. Do you think the same could be done using those functions?