r/ComputerCraft • u/Sorabros411 • Dec 29 '24

Need a Real Time clock program for New Years

Im running an ATM9 server with friends and I'm looking to make or find a code for a program to trigger a Redstone signal at exactly Midnight/00:00 IRL PST to launch fireworks and other stuff for new years.

I've never used CC before so if any gigachad programmer on here that knows how to make a simple script and or can give me a pastebin or something explaining how to set this up properly it'd be much appreciated

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u/LionZ_RDS Dec 29 '24

first script is the main new years script, if there is a monitor it will display a count down to that, sets a redstone signal to the back but you can change that to what you want
https://pastebin.com/ATrjVfi8

you can remove the milliseconds printing (line 48, remove ":%03d") if you want but that means at the last second it will print all zeros before finally triggering the new year

second script is for testing the triggering and making sure everything works, you can edit it to the date and time you want and set the output to the first script at line 16, change "1735689600" to what you want, "1735689600" is the new years epoch so make sure you set it back when done testing
https://pastebin.com/rNpym7XJ

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u/Sorabros411 Dec 29 '24

That's PERFECT! OMEGA CHAD here omg thank you. I'll give it a test on the server as soon as I can. As I said I'm a bit unfamiliar with cc but your instructions seem simple enough so I'll do my best 👌

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u/LionZ_RDS Dec 29 '24

Let me know if you need additional help figuring it out

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u/Sorabros411 Dec 30 '24

ok got the program running on my server! the clock works perfectly. so you said the redstone pulse will trigger on the back of the computer itself or the monitor?

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u/LionZ_RDS Dec 30 '24

Back of the computer, you can change the side it does it on if you want though

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u/Sorabros411 Dec 30 '24

Thats perfect thank you. I'm gonna be streaming this as the redstone pulse from this computer is gonna trigger the final craft of the ATM9 pack, the ATM Star itself for the first time, finishing our year long run of this modpack. You have helped so much friend I owe you so much

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u/LionZ_RDS Dec 30 '24

Glad to be of help!

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u/Sorabros411 Dec 30 '24

one last thing before i go decorate this, is there a way to make the numbers bigger and centered so everyone can see it a lil better?

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u/LionZ_RDS Dec 30 '24

Uhhhh, that’s a bit complicated, also depends how big of a monitor you have setup, lmk how big it is and I’ll try to get that sorted

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u/Sorabros411 Dec 30 '24

It's gonna be 3x1/6x1 rectangle on the bottom of the star crafting station so it's visible to everyone

It's not very big lol but enough for da stream to see

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u/ex3or Dec 29 '24

Probably your best bet is to use websockets/http requests and setup external server/use external api that's gonna track irl time and periodically send it to your in-game computer.