time

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Description

Description:

Time elapsed since mission started (in seconds).

Groups:

Uncategorised

Syntax

Syntax:

Number = time

Return Value:

Number

Examples

Examples:

Example needed

Additional Information

See also:

daytimedatedateToNumber

Notes

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Notes

Posted on August 4, 2006 - 12:02

hardrock

Notes from before the conversion: Not to be confused with _time. Within a script, the reserved local variable _time returns the time elapsed since the script started running. Note that the value of time is not saved when the mission is saved and so will be reset to zero when a mission is restarted from a saved position. The value of _time is saved correctly and will resume from where it was.

Posted on January 5, 2007 - 12:24

Giova

Notes from before the conversion: time works properly in sqf called with execVM command. In an other hand, _time does not works in sqf called with execVM command.(Arma v1.02.5103GER)

Posted on October 02, 2010 - 12:02

teaCup

On overloaded servers (below ~10 server FPS), time readings are unreliable. Seconds actually take longer. While the clients keep a steady tempo, server time lags behind, resulting in considerable offset between client and server time (easily 30 minutes for a 2 hour game). Client time is synchronised to server time during JIP, but other than that it runs independently.

Posted on 30 Oct 2013

Dr Eyeball

Arma 3 JIP bug: As of Arma 3 v1.02, for JIP clients 'time' value will start off counting from 0, not the real 'time' value. After about 2.5sec (on average), it will then jump to a high value and synchronise with the real 'time' value, which could be 900, for example. Therefore, do not use 'time' for any start of mission init timeouts; it's unreliable. (It's odd that it doesn't synchronise at the same time as public variables.)