Script to write the date to a text file

[Gibbo]

We have the Lifechannel system here. Its quite boring to log in daily and change the date in the ticker.

 

Noseying around the file structure, we see that the text comes from a file called ticker.txt

 

How easy would it be to write a batch file that's called at, say, 6am every day that overwrites the existing ticker.txt with a fresh one that says "Welcome to our school. Today is "?

 

TIA

[glennda]

I use a html webpage with java script - not sure if the system will let you do that - code below.

 

Time and date




<br />
<!-- Begin<br />
<br />
// Get today's current date.<br />
var now = new Date();<br />
<br />
// Array list of days.<br />
var days = new Array('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday');<br />
<br />
// Array list of months.<br />
var months = new Array('January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December');<br />
<br />
// Calculate the number of the current day in the week.<br />
var date = ((now.getDate()<10) ? "0" : "")+ now.getDate();<br />
<br />
// Calculate four digit year.<br />
function fourdigits(number)	{<br />
	return (number < 1000) ? number + 1900 : number;<br />
								}<br />
<br />
// Join it all together<br />
today =  days[now.getDay()] + ", " +<br />
         months[now.getMonth()]+ " " +<br />
         date + ", " +<br />
         (fourdigits(now.getYear())) ;<br />
<br />
// Print out the data.<br />
document.write(today);<br />
<br />
//  End --><br />

[LosOjos]

Create a batch file (.bat) that contains something along the lines of:

 

echo Welcome to our school. Today is %date% > C:\your\path\ticker.txt

 

 

NOTE: That will overwrite the file so that it will only contain that line, so bare that in mind before you try it

[Gibbo]

Thanks everyone, far simpler than I imagined!

[Gibbo]

Had some great fun developing this today. Here's our current release:

 

'Open up the path to save the information into a text file
Dim Stuff, myFSO, WriteStuff, dateStamp
dateStamp = Date()

Const ForWriting = 2

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("E:\media\ticker\ticker.txt", ForWriting)

' Blank the text file before creating todays data
objFile.Write ""
objFile.Close

'Get todays date
DIM iDay
iDay = DatePart("w", Date())

SELECT CASE iDay
Case "1" strDayName = "Sunday"
Case "2" strDayName = "Monday"
Case "3" strDayName = "Tuesday"
Case "4" strDayName = "Wednesday"
Case "5" strDayName = "Thursday"
Case "6" strDayName = "Friday"
Case "7" strDayName = "Saturday"
END SELECT

'Write information to Text File
Stuff = "Good morning and welcome to our school. Today is "
localDate = FormatDateTime(date(), 1)
joinedup = Stuff + strDayName + " " + localdate + "."

Set myFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WriteStuff = myFSO.OpenTextFile("E:\media\ticker\ticker.txt", 8, True)
'WriteStuff.WriteLine(Stuff)
'WriteStuff.WriteLine(localdate)
WriteStuff.WriteLine(joinedup)
WriteStuff.Close
SET WriteStuff = NOTHING
SET myFSO = NOTHING

 

Assuming anyone else with Lifechannel has their system set up the same way this should work.