Current Time Gate

**yaworski** · 04-09-2007

Hi.

This would be cool to have a gate that would be simply returning the current time (if it is not cut from gmod's lua, then os.time should be enough as it return the number of seconds from epoch). This should be a timed gate since it wouldn't have any inputs to trigger it.

Possible applications? In connection with expression evaluator or cpu chip this could create a very precise countdown timers (for example you press the button, the cpu remembers the current time and then in loop it checks if 30 seconds has left since then and triggers its output - this is just a example). Of course there are now other ways to do counters, but anyway current time gate would be good to have.

**Syranide** · 04-09-2007

Hi.

This would be cool to have a gate that would be simply returning the current time (if it is not cut from gmod's lua, then os.time should be enough as it return the number of seconds from epoch). This should be a timed gate since it wouldn't have any inputs to trigger it.

Possible applications? In connection with expression evaluator or cpu chip this could create a very precise countdown timers (for example you press the button, the cpu remembers the current time and then in loop it checks if 30 seconds has left since then and triggers its output - this is just a example). Of course there are now other ways to do counters, but anyway current time gate would be good to have.[/b]

Well I can't see any other use for it other than to easily get the current time?
You already have gates that can count time, but they measure from the time they was created.

**Yerocrg** · 04-13-2007

Hi.

This would be cool to have a gate that would be simply returning the current time (if it is not cut from gmod's lua, then os.time should be enough as it return the number of seconds from epoch). This should be a timed gate since it wouldn't have any inputs to trigger it.

Possible applications? In connection with expression evaluator or cpu chip this could create a very precise countdown timers (for example you press the button, the cpu remembers the current time and then in loop it checks if 30 seconds has left since then and triggers its output - this is just a example). Of course there are now other ways to do counters, but anyway current time gate would be good to have.[/b]

So essentially you are describing a device similar to the GPS and gyroscope, but for time rather than position or angle? That could actually be pretty useful. Other possible applications would be in precisely synchronizing transmitting and receiving stations.

**yaworski** · 04-13-2007

Do you mean, for example, doing multiplexing/demultiplexing the "signal" that is sent through the radio, don't you? It could be really easily done.

For example: spawn 2 radios, spawn 2 current time gates (if they would be available

), spawn 1 router gate and one choice gate. We will also need some logic that would calculate a integer value in range [1,8] (2 sets of such logic, they must work exactly the same way). Lets name this logic "selector".

Then on transmitting station connect choice to radio, current time to "selector" and "selector" to the choice input in choice gate. On the receiving station (can be more of them) connect radio to router, current time to "selector" and "selector" to route input of the router.

Then you can connect some values to the choice gate's inputs and receive them on the receiving stations on the same output on the router. Of course there would be a need to hold the value on each output of router until the next value will be sent (depending on how fast the "selector" changes the path for (de)multiplexing).

Yay for current time gate

. Hehe.