date

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Description

Description:

Return the actual in-mission date and time in format [year, month, day, hour, minute]. In MP the date is automatically and periodically synced with the server date.

Multiplayer:

Returns the current local in game date.

Groups:

Uncategorised

Syntax

Syntax:

date

Return Value:

Array - date in format [year, month, day, hour, minute], where:

• year - whatever year is set in game (2035 in Arma 3 by default)
• month - a number from 1 to 12
• day - a number from 1 to 31
• hour - a number from 0 to 23
• minute - a number from 0 to 59

Examples

Example 1:

_now = date; // _now = [2014,10,30,2,30] (Oct. 30th, 2:30am) _hour = _now select 3; _min = _now select 4;

Example 2:

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

Additional Information

See also:

setDatedateToNumbernumberToDatetimemissionStart

Notes

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

Lou Montana

a useful command here: _curDate = date; _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 variable but more request to date) _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)];