Uptime: Is that a bug?

fabricio82 · Post by **fabricio82** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:35 am

When I use %_uptime in my nickname, others can see it.

I have a problem in the first 60 minutes.

If my uptime is, for example, 15 minutes and 38 seconds, it shows:

15 days, 38 hours, X minutes, where X is the number of users.

Anybody has the same problem???

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zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:38 am

I think it’s a problem with the AppleScript. Like “word __ of __” isn’t too reliable; if Days isn’t displayed, hours would be the first number.

memark · Post by **memark** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:22 pm

I looked in to this a bit and discovered that depending on your uptime you get around five or six different formats on the output from '/usr/bin/uptime'. I then tried to fix the script, but parsing this via AppleScript and shell scripts is very cumbersome.

I'm not sure how people are using this script, but I would suggest returning the output from the uptime command more directly, though the format may then vary.

memark · Post by **memark** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:00 pm

Since noone had any ideas, I went ahead and rewrote it.
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/2734