This is the documentation for the Railway Time API. These functions are accessible for developers at:

advtrains.lines.rwt.*

These functions are also accessible in the LuaATC environment at:

rwt.*

A railway time can be represented by 3 different formats: table, string or seconds. All API functions accept any of the formats as input, and usually output in table form, unless specified otherwise.

A railway time is represented in a table like this:

{
  s=45,
  m=23, 
  c=1,
}

A time string can be either in the form cc;mm;ss or mm;ss. Trailing 0's can be omitted. mm and ss must be within 0-60.

1;23;45

A simple integer value counting the seconds since 0;00;00.

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now()
Returns current railway time in table format

new(c, m, s)
Creates a new railway time in table format

copy(rwtime)
Explicitly creates a copy of rwtime, so that changes to either object don't affect the other

to_table(rwtime)
Explicitly converts to table format

to_secs(rwtime, [c_over])
Explicitly converts to seconds format.
c_over: if given, overrides the "cycle" value to this value before conversion, while not changing rwtime

to_string(rwtime_p, [no_cycle])
Explicitly converts to string format
no_cycle: if true, omits the cycle value, outputting a value of mm;ss

add(t1, t2)
Adds two railway times

diff(t1, t2)
Returns the time in seconds from t1 to t2 (=t2-t1)
Note the argument order: diff("00;15", "00;35") = 20

sub(t1, t2)
Subtracts t2 from t1, result is in table form.
The argument order is reverse to diff().

Sometimes, you need to work with times like “at 15;30 every cycle” or “every two minutes”. Such expressions are called “repeating time”. They are characterized by an interval (“every ii;ii”) and an offset (“at oo;oo”).

Example: The times 05;00 25;00 45;00 would be expressed by interval 20;00, offset 05;00.

time_to_next_rpt(rwtime, rpt_interval, rpt_offset)
Returns number of seconds until this repeating time occurs the next time

time_from_last_rpt(rwtime, rpt_interval, rpt_offset)
Returns number of seconds until this repeating time occured the last time

last_rpt(rwtime, rpt_interval, rpt_offset)
Returns time when this repeating time occured the last time

next_rpt(rwtime, rpt_interval, rpt_offset)
Returns time when this repeating time occurs the next time