How to get the current date or time

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Phil7

(Posted 2015) [#1]

Hi,
I want to save some data in combination with the time to track the usage of the game.
Is there a way to get the date/time of the system?

Phil

therevills

(Posted 2015) [#2]

Local date:=GetDate()

http://www.monkey-x.com/docs/html/Modules_mojo.app.html#GetDate

Steve Ancell

(Posted 2015) [#3]

Also note that GetDate() returns an array, with 7 elements (0-6). They are in the order of year/month/day/hours/minutes/seconds/millisecs.

Using the example that therevills said, you can access the elements like this: date[i]. Or you can access them like this: GetDate()[i]

Each element is an integer.

Phil7

(Posted 2015) [#4]

Thank you very much. I should have read the docs more properly.
Sometimes it's hard for me to get a good overview of what's available and how to use it, when consulting the docs.

Duke87

(Posted 2015) [#5]

Here's a little help to see how to use it.

Function GetCurrentDateTime:String()
	Local date:=GetDate()
    Local months:=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"]
    local day:int = date[2]
    local month:int = date[1]
    local year:int = date[0]
    local hour:int = date[3]
    local min:int = date[4]
    local sec:int = date[5]
    Print "Day: " + date[2]
    Print "Month: " + date[1]
   	Print "Year: " + date[0]
   	Print "Hour: " + date[3]
   	Print "Min: " + date[4]
   	Print "Sec: " + date[5]
    Local now:String = hour+":"+min+":"+sec+"  "+day+" "+month+" "+year
    Return now
End Function

I've posted some DateCalc functions to monkeycode recently.
http://www.monkey-x.com/Community/posts.php?topic=10029