Get seconds since midnight

[iSerganov]

Hey Community!
Can someone please help me to get seconds since midnight from withing Liquidsoap script?

I am trying to do something like this:

let current_time = time()
seconds_since_midnight =  current_time.hour * 3600.0 + current_time.min * 60.0 + current_time.sec

Unfortunately not much luck...

Any help is much appreciated.

[vitoyucepi]

Hi @iSerganov,
There are two ways to get the seconds since midnight

1. Get the remainder after dividing by a number of seconds in a day after adjusting for the time zone.

   def seconds_since_midnight()
     current_time = int(time())
     let _.{utc_diff} = time.zone()
     SECONDS_IN_DAY = 86400
     (current_time + utc_diff) mod SECONDS_IN_DAY
   end

2. Using the local time in the form of a data structure.

   def seconds_since_midnight()
     let {hour, min, sec} = time.local()
     SECONDS_IN_HOUR = 3600
     SECONDS_IN_MINUTE = 60
     hour * SECONDS_IN_HOUR + min * SECONDS_IN_MINUTE + sec
   end

[iSerganov]

Thank you, actually I've discovered the second option few minutes ago.
Though the first one seems more interesting to me.