This is what i wrote in the pandorabot (playground) editor and it doesnt work :

Help?

Try this instead:

It doesnt work. This is the displayed error message (in pandorabots):

Message:[in Sax parser] parse of # failed filename cache/manage/files/b4/b4961ccb20469363b1c52914b0ffb62acc7de155, position near character 164

Try replacing timez with timezone=“0”. For some reason, the forum doesn’t like to post the timezone parameter. Go figure!

oh, it work now. Is there a way to show the time (ex. 15:04) because what my bot replies is with the date rather than the time

Thanks a lot anyways

The parameters in my category should produce something like 15:04. Could you post the response your bot is producing?

This is its reply:

yveete: The time is Friday, February 05, 2016

That seems odd. Could you post the category you are using please?

  <category>
  WHAT TIME IS IT</pattern>
  <template>The time is <date locale=“en_GB” timez format=”%I:%M %p” jformat=“h:mm a”></template>
</category>

timez is supposed to be timezone=“0”  .... but when i copy paste it changes to timez

Try missing out the jformat part:

The time is <date locale=“en_GB” timez format=”%I:%M %p”>

timez should say timezone=“0”. Why does this forum insist on replacing that….?

Yes it works now, but what if i dont live in the UK , (i live in Romania). How do i change it so the time is 2 hours in front ?

Thanks !

I would either change it to timezone=“2” or find your date_locale from this link:
http://www.alicebot.org/aiml/aaa/Date.txt
It’s probably ro_RO from a quick look.

Was looking to find a solution to a related issue and stumbled onto this thread. I somehow cannot set the timezone. Tried timezone = “5” / “+5” / “05” etc and the bot reply gracefully degraded to retrieving the current date. Tried to set the locale as locale = “en_IN” and still doesnt work. Any idea why? Do I need to add any parameters to the format or the jformat attribute?

This is what happens to me too!

Yeah, it seems broken. As soon as one adds the “timezone” to the date element, it echos the default format as if there werde no parameters set. Very frustrating…