record date

rob*m

hi, is there an easy way to record the current date in a game.
currently using 3 table values for day,month,year which is difficult to assimilate into games in chronological order.
any ideas??

gyroscope

Hi @rob*m It's not difficult to "assimilate into games in chronological order" (although I'm not quite sure what you mean by that anyhow...)

The only hiccup is the US way of presenting a date with the UK way, unless that's what you meant anyway... so you might want to consider using a boolean for the user to make a choice...

But the stuff in the Display text is no problem:

For the UK: (and possibly Canada, etc)
Display Text game.Clock.Day.." / "..game.Clock.Month .." / ".. game.Clock.Year

For the US:
Display Text game.Clock.Month .." / "..game.Clock.Day.." / ".. game.Clock.Year

Then you can save the three elements to attribute; use 3 Save Attribute behaviours to save the dates if required, and 3 Load Attribute behaviours to return that previous date if needed.

Hope that helps.

rob*m

Hi gyroscope,
Sorry for the ambiguity.I have used Display Text as you mentioned to display date on screen. But i need to record dates that events occurred. Then search the dates to find the first time an event occurred. I do not know how to record the date as a single entity, only in 3 pieces which makes it challenging although not impossible to recall. was just hoping that was missing something and there was an easy way to do this.

mounted88

Not sure if this would work but you might be able to make a save for dates and have then be saved to a table, then later on users can search and it would draw them from the table.

Like I said just a suggestion not sure if it will work.

RThurman

You could calculate the number of days since Jan 1, 1AD and use that as a standard of measurement. For example today might be day 73556 and tomorrow might be 73557.