using time to add to rpg

[goroyoshi]

how can i use the time to tell the game if the marketplace is open

i tried and failed

Turing:

var timepassed loop timepassed := Time.Elapsed %how would i detect what time it is and tell the program what to do     if timepassed >  and timepassed < %i have no clue what to do         %do whatever here     else         %do nothing     end if end loop

[Tony]

from Time.Elapsed

Quote:

The Time.Elapsed function returns the amount of time since a program (process) started running. The number of milliseconds since the program started running is returned.

[Raknarg]

So are you trying to set it up so it opens at a specific time in real time? or are you doing some kind of hour based thing, where when you do some major action, an hour passes or something?

[goroyoshi]

whoops sorry, then "time"

Turing:

var timepassed loop timepassed := time %how would i detect what time it is and tell the program what to do     if timepassed >  and timepassed < %i have no clue what to do         %do whatever here     else         %do nothing     end if end loop

yes, i would like to open the market when its a certain hour in real time

[Raknarg]

You should look up time before you use it, however; you set timepassed as a string and then use:
time (timpassed)
That will set timepasses as a string version of whatever time it is at the moment.

For this problem, I would use strint. This converts a string into an integer. So to check the hour, you would use strint (timepassed (1 .. 2). Then you just compare the hour to the store's hours.

[goroyoshi]

im trying to use strint but it returns as illegal character in string passed to strint

[Raknarg]

Here, this might help. A random program i made with your stuff.

Turing:

var timepassed : string loop     time (timepassed)     put timepassed     if strint (timepassed (1 .. 2)) > 13 or strint (timepassed (1 .. 2)) < 9 then         put "Its not inbetween 9 am and 1 pm."         exit     else         put "It is inbetween 9 am and 1 pm."         exit     end if     cls end loop

[Raknarg]

You dont change time. You check a variable you set with time. It checks the first two numbers of whatever timepassed was when it got to the if statement, or at least it does in my program.

[goroyoshi]

ok i see, i missed the 1 .. 2

+1 karma

[Raknarg]

Yeah, checks only the hours. I beleive that in the morning its preceded by a zero, so it should work all hours of the day.
EDIT: thx