Readme file pour la bibliothèque Arduino "Time"

Time est une bibliothèque qui fournit des fonctions de gestion du temps pour Arduino.

Le code est tiré de la bibliothèque DateTime , mais mise à jour pour fournir une API  plus flexible et plus facile à utiliser.

Le but principal(primaire) était de permettre la fonctionnalité des dates et heures qui peuvent être utilisée avec une variété de sources de temps externes avec des différences minimales exigées dans la logique de croquis(sketch).

Les croquis(sketches) d'exemple illustrent comment le code de croquis(sketch) semblable peut être utilisé avec : Modules RTC,service de temps Internet NTP , données de temps GPS et messages de temps En liasion série d'un ordinateur pour synchronisation de temps.

Les fonctions disponibles dans la bibliothèque incluent :

hour();            // heure actuelle  (0-23)
minute();          // minute actuelle (0-59)          
second();          // seconde actuelle (0-59) 
day();             // jour actuel (1-31)
weekday();         // jour de la semaine, dimanche = 0 
month();           // mois actuel (1-12)
year();            // année actuel: (2009, 2010 etc) 

fonctions liées au format sur 12h
hourFormat12();    // renvois l'heure actuelle au format 12h
isAM();            // renvois true si le temps definis est le matin
isPM();            // renvois true si le temps definis est l'apres-midi

now();             // renvois le temps actuel en seconde depuis 1970

The time and date functions can take an optional parameter for the time. This prevents
errors if the time rolls over between elements. For example, if a new minute begins
between getting the minute and second, the values will be inconsistent. Using the 
following functions eliminates this probglem 
  time_t t = now(); // store the current time in time variable t 
  hour(t);          // returns the hour for the given time t
  minute(t);        // returns the minute for the given time t
  second(t);        // returns the second for the given time t 
  day(t);           // the day for the given time t 
  weekday(t);       // day of the week for the given time t  
  month(t);         // the month for the given time t 
  year(t);          // the year for the given time t  
  
  
Functions for managing the timer services are:  
setTime(t);             // set the system time to the give time t
setTime(hr,min,sec,day,mnth,yr); // alternative to above, yr is 2 or 4 digit yr (2010 or 10 sets year to 2010)
adjustTime(adjustment); // adjust system time by adding the adjustment value

timeStatus();       // indicates if time has been set and recently synchronized
                    // returns one of the following enumerations:
    timeNotSet      // the time has never been set, the clock started at Jan 1 1970
    timeNeedsSync   // the time had been set but a sync attempt did not succeed
    timeSet         // the time is set and is synced
Time and Date values are not valid if the status is timeNotSet. Otherwise values can be used but 
the returned time may have drifted if the status is timeNeedsSync. 	

setSyncProvider(getTimeFunction);  // set the external time provider
setSyncInterval(interval);         // set the number of seconds between re-sync


There are many convenience macros in the time.h file for time constants and conversion of time units.

To use the library, copy the download to the Library directory.

The Time directory contains the Time library and some example sketches
illustrating how the library can be used with various time sources:

- TimeSerial.pde shows Arduino as a clock without external hardware.
  It is synchronized by time messages sent over the serial port.
  A companion Processing sketch will automatically provide these messages
  if it is running and connected to the Arduino serial port. 

- TimeSerialDateStrings.pde adds day and month name strings to the sketch above
  Short (3 character) and long strings are available to print the days of 
  the week and names of the months. 
  
- TimeRTC uses a DS1307 real time clock to provide time synchronization.
  A basic RTC library named DS1307RTC is included in the download.
  To run this sketch the DS1307RTC library must be installed.

- TimeRTCSet is similar to the above and adds the ability to set the Real Time Clock 

- TimeRTCLog demonstrates how to calculate the difference between times. 
  It is a vary simple logger application that monitors events on digtial pins
  and prints (to the serial port) the time of an event and the time period since the previous event.
  
- TimeNTP uses the Arduino Ethernet shield to access time using the internet NTP time service.
  The NTP protocol uses UDP and the UdpBytewise library is required, see:
  http://bitbucket.org/bjoern/arduino_osc/src/14667490521f/libraries/Ethernet/

- TimeGPS gets time from a GPS
  This requires the TinyGPS library from Mikal Hart:
  http://arduiniana.org/libraries/TinyGPS

Differences between this code and the playground DateTime library
although the Time library is based on the DateTime codebase, the API has changed.
Changes in the Time library API:
- time elements are functions returning int (they are variables in DateTime)
- Years start from 1970 
- days of the week and months start from 1 (they start from 0 in DateTime)
- DateStrings do not require a seperate library
- time elements can be accessed non-atomically (in DateTime they are always atomic)
- function added to automatically sync time with extrnal source
- localTime and maketime parameters changed, localTime renamed to breakTime
 
Technical notes:

Internal system time is based on the standard Unix time_t.
The value is the number of seconds since Jan 1 1970.
System time begins at zero when the sketch starts.
  
The internal time can be automatically synchronized at regular intervals to an external time source.
This is enabled by calling the setSyncProvider(provider) function - the provider argument is
the address of a function that returns the current time as a time_t.
See the sketches in the examples directory for usage.

The default interval for re-syncing the time is 5 minutes but can be changed by calling the 
setSyncInterval( interval) method to set the number of seconds between re-sync attempts.

The Time library defines a structure for holding time elements that is a compact version of the  C tm structure.
All the members of the Arduino tm structure are bytes and the year is offset from 1970.
Convenience macros provide conversion to and from the Arduino format.

Low level functions to convert between system time and individual time elements are provided:                    
  breakTime( time, &tm);  // break time_t into elements stored in tm struct
  makeTime( &tm);  // return time_t  from elements stored in tm struct 

The DS1307RTC library included in the download provides an example of how a time provider
can use the low level functions to interface with the Time library.