Getting todays date in HISE

[Casey Kolb]

@ustk I think just being able to grab the current system date and time is super useful. Maybe something like Engine.getSystemDate() returns

{
  year: 2020,
  month: 11,
  day: 19,
  hour: 14,
  minute: 55,
  second: 32
}

But I'm sure there's a better way of returning it. This isn't my forte haha.

[Christoph Hart]

I would suggest to not go down the rabbit hole of trying to outsmart a imaginary cracker. Just make sure your plugin can‘t be copied to multiple machines by a simple user and leave the rest to companies who sell usb dongles for a living...

[ustk]

@Lunacy-Audio The juce Time class allows everything we need so it is just a matter of what we need and I'll find a way to make the API
Currently, I've made one that gives the number of days since 1970. I've just made a simple conversion since it is originally in milliseconds...

[Casey Kolb]

Sounds reasonable

[ustk]

@Lunacy-Audio What sounds reasonable?

[Casey Kolb]

The number of days since 1970. Also, the addition of the function I mentioned above would be great too, but no rush.

[LeeC]

@ustk The time since 1970 and also any format of system date would be great for now.
If it's too tricky to pull back an object with the attributes that @Lunacy-Audio suggested then a simple string would be useful too.

Appreciate you looking into this for us
I'm sure it will come in handy for other HISE things outside of copy protection also.

[ustk]

Ok guys I've added the Engine.getSystemTime(bool includeDividerCharacters) API from Juce
it returns a fully described string of the date and time in ISO-8601 format (using the local timezone) with or without divider characters.
It is up to you @Christoph-Hart to merge it of course, but if you find it unnecessary, the mod is easy for anyone interested...

// Returns a string with separator:
2020-11-21T16:07:08.525+01:00

// Or without separator
20201121T160708.525+0100

[dejans]

@ustk Thank You!

[LeeC]

@ustk Legend thanks!

[Casey Kolb]

@ustk Woo! Thanks man.

[LeeC]

@Christoph-Hart is it possible to get this merged?
Cheers

[LeeC]

@d-healey are you still maintaining a branch that we could potentially merge this change made by @ustk to?
Desperate to make use of this 'Date Logic' but don't want to pester the man (@Christoph-Hart) anymore than we need to.

Cheers

[Christoph Hart]

It‘s already merged in the main scriptnode branch.

[LeeC]

Oh really?!
Legend thanks @Christoph-Hart and big thanks again to @ustk for making the change!
Downloading the latest scriptnode now...

[ustk]

@LeeC look for Engine.getSystemTime(bool includeDividerCharacters)