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nml375 · Revered One Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 2857

Please read the documentation for the Time binding (quoted below). As you can see, the arguments passed to the proc are minute, hour, day, month, and year, not nickname, userhost, handle, channel, and text. As such, you first need to make sure your proc takes the appropriate number of parameters (5). This is why it started working when you added "arg" at the end of the list. That, however, does not mean "chan" will hold a channel name, but rather the current month (as a number 01-12). As such, I would recommend that you use some other names for those variables, as to avoid confusion.

Secondly, you'll need to alter your PRIVMSG commandline to take a valid destination, either by hardcoding this into the script, or using some global variable.

speechles · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: msg once a day by bind time

cache · Master Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 306 Location: Mass

so the $chan part has to be static? No way to make this work in all rooms it is in?

speechles · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject:

cache · Master Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 306 Location: Mass

arfer · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:48 am Post subject:

It is something of a coincidence that this code now functions as expected.

A TIME bind returns {minute hour day month year} to the proc it calls and not {nick uhost hand chan arg}. However, since you are permitted to call the arguments anything you like as they are received by the proc AND there happens to be five of them, it does work.

This is why you couldn't use $chan to send a channel output message to the IRCD in your original code. A TIME bind is not directly associated with an IRC channel.
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