date

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Description

Description:

Return the actual in-mission date and time.

Multiplayer:

Returns the current local (MP client) in-game date.

Clients' local date is automatically and periodically synchronised with the server date.

Groups:

Environment

Syntax

Syntax:

date

Return Value:

Array - Date format

Examples

Example 1:

// in Arma 3 date params ["_year", "_month", "_day", "_hours", "_minutes"]; // pre Arma 3 private ["_now", "_year", "_month", "_day", "_hours", "_minutes"]; _now = date; // [2014,10,30,2,30] a.k.a Oct. 30th, 2:30am _year = _now select 0; _month = _now select 1; _day = _now select 2; _hours = _now select 3; _minutes = _now select 4;

Example 2:

if (date select 3 >= 19) then // 7pm { hintSilent "ah, Arma sunset"; // ...cue bad guys };

Additional Information

See also:

setDate dateToNumber numberToDate time missionStart systemTime systemTimeUTC

Notes

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Lou Montana - c

Posted on Jan 23, 2018 - 23:35 (UTC)

a useful script to format the date:

_curDate = date; private _ddMMyyyy = format ["%3/%2/%1", _curDate select 0, (if (_curDate select 1 < 10) then { "0" } else { "" }) + str (_curDate select 1), (if (_curDate select 2 < 10) then { "0" } else { "" }) + str (_curDate select 2) ];

it can be shortened to: (no intermediary variable but more request to date)

private _ddMMyyyy = format ["%3/%2/%1", date select 0, (if (date select 1 < 10) then { "0" } else { "" }) + str (date select 1), (if (date select 2 < 10) then { "0" } else { "" }) + str (date select 2) ];

EDIT: or to

private _ddMMyyyy = format ["%4%5/%2%3/%1", date select 0, ["", "0"] select (date select 1 < 10), date select 1, ["", "0"] select (date select 2 < 10), date select 2 ];