Tom's Midnight Garden

Example 299

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A clock kind that can be set to any time using "the time understood"; may be turned on and off; and will advance itself only when running. Time on the face is also reported differently depending on whether the clock is analog or digital.

Time can also be understood as a token, and the time parsed will be recorded as "the time understood". So therefore, if we wish for clocks which may be set:

Play/modify in Borogove

Play in Quixe

"Tom's Midnight Garden"

A clock is a kind of device. A clock has a time called the current time. A clock can be analog or digital. The current time of a clock is usually 9:01 AM. The description of a clock is "It shows the time to be [if analog]about [the current time to the nearest five minutes in words][otherwise][the current time][end if]."

Understand "set [clock] to [time]" as setting it by time. Setting it by time is an action applying to one thing and one time.

Instead of setting a clock to something:

say "[The noun] can be set only to a time of day, such as 8:00 AM, or midnight."

Carry out setting a clock by time:

now the current time of the noun is the time understood.

Report setting a clock by time:

say "You set [the noun] to [time understood]."

Every turn:

repeat with item running through switched on clocks:

now the current time of the item is one minute after the current time of the item.

The Hall is a room. The grandfather clock is a fixed in place analog clock in the Hall. The travel clock is a switched on digital clock in the Hall. When play begins: now the right hand status line is "[time of day]".

Test me with "examine grandfather clock / set it to midnight / switch it on / wait / wait / wait / examine it / set travel clock to 4:12 / examine it".

Hall
You can see a grandfather clock and a travel clock here.

>(Testing.)

>[1] examine grandfather clock
It shows the time to be about nine o'clock.

The grandfather clock is currently switched off.

>[2] set it to midnight
You set the grandfather clock to 12:00 am.

>[3] switch it on
You switch the grandfather clock on.

>[4] wait
Time passes.

>[5] wait
Time passes.

>[6] wait
Time passes.

>[7] examine it
It shows the time to be about five past twelve.

The grandfather clock is currently switched on.

>[8] set travel clock to 4:12
You set the travel clock to 4:12 am.

>[9] examine it
It shows the time to be 4:13 am.

The travel clock is currently switched on.