Design Pattern: Simple State Machine (e.g. Time Of Day)

[rossko57]

@Kardiii

I had to use a variable which gets populated every time the rule runs.

But it isn’t. It’s populated when the xxx.rules file is loaded. You’ve placed it outside of your rule.

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