Manipulating time of day and telling time?

[rggbnnnnn]

I'm making a game mode that relies heavily on telling you the time of day, and moving the sun accordingly. Past 10pm is nighttime, and after 6am is daytime. I also need to be able to tell what time of day it is to the player. What functions can I use to do this? I remember it being a pain for a friend I know.

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[Rally]

What I have here is basically spaghetti code, somebody else should probably take a look and tell me what I did wrong. It's probably patched together from multiple places (i worked on the same concept for a gamemode)

This should return you a number pertaining to the time of day (0 is ~6AM, 500 is ~6PM I guess, 1000 is ~6AM of the next day)

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function getDayTime()
{
%time = $Sim::Time / DayCycle.dayLength + DayCycle.dayOffset;
$DayTime = (%time - mFloor(%time)) *1000;
return $DayTime;
}

This is a method I used to convert that number into a string like "6:00 AM". This might only work for 300 second days but I'm not sure. 24 hour clock is probably less complicated

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function getClock()
{
// 41.6666666667 = 1 hour

%hours = (getDayTime() + 249) / 41.5;
%remainder = %hours - mFloor(%hours);
%seconds = (%remainder * 60);

// convert hours to 12 hour clock

if(%hours > 12)
{
%noonString = "PM";
%hours = %hours - 12;

if(%hours > 12)
{
%noonString = "AM";
%hours = %hours - 12;
}
}
else
{
%noonString = "AM";
}

%hourOfDay = mFloor(%hours);
if(%hourOfDay == 0)
{
%hourOfDay = 12;
}

%secondOfHour = mFloor(%seconds);
if(%secondOfHour < 10)
{
%secondOfHour = "0" @ %secondOfHour;
}

%time = %hourOfDay @ ":" @ %secondOfHour SPC %noonString;

return %time;
}

This function just sets the time to 6AM and enables/resets the daycycle

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function serverCmdAdvanceDay(%client)
{
if(!%client.isAdmin)
return;

serverCmdEnvGui_SetVar(%client,"DayCycleEnabled",1);
serverCmdEnvGui_SetVar(%client, DayLength, $DayLength);

serverCmdEnvGui_SetVar(%client, DayOffset, 1);
%time = getDayTime() / 1000;
serverCmdEnvGui_SetVar(%client, DayOffset, 1 - %time);
}

[Conan]

useful default function you can use: getTimeString(seconds)

returns a minute:second time representation of the vaue

[rggbnnnnn]

Alright, thanks. That should be enough. Locking.