Mission Timer as .txt

[Bumble B]

I could probably dive though tones of postings but I'll ask here too in case someone has it to hand

On Distant Worlds 2 and I would like a have a mission timer to display on my stream.

What I would like is to put in the start date and time and for the script to calculate in Months, weeks, days, hours, mins & seconds and have that saved as a .txt file every second so I have a continuous mission timer type thing.

[Bumble B]

ok I've looked though the forums for past posts and I have found this posting here. It's kinda what I'm looking for.

Made some adjustments and I got partly what I want. I got the days to work but I don't know how to get the hours, minutes and seconds.

https://forum.voiceattack.com/smf/index.php?topic=655.0

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Set date [TargetDate] value to 13/01/2019 16:09:20
Set integer [DaysToTarget] value to the converted value of {EXP: ({DATETICKS} - {DATETICKS:TargetDate}) / 864000000000}
Write [Blue] 'Start Date & Time ({DATE:TargetDate}):- Mission time: {INT:DaysToTarget} Days : {INT:HoursToTarget} Hours :  {INT:MinutesToTarget} Minutes :  {INT:SecondsToTarget} Secords' to log

Results:

Start Date & Time (January 13, 2019):- Mission time: 11 Days : Not set Hours :  Not set Minutes :  Not set Seconds

[Pfeil]

Instead of reinventing the wheel and doing the math manually, I'd use an inline function:

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using System;

public class VAInline
{
public void main()
{
DateTime startTime = VA.GetDate("startTime") ?? DateTime.MinValue;
TimeSpan elapsedTime = DateTime.Now - startTime;
VA.SetText("elapsedTime", "Start Date & Time (" + startTime + "):- Mission time: " + elapsedTime.Days + " Days : " + elapsedTime.Hours + " Hours :  " + elapsedTime.Minutes + " Minutes :  " + elapsedTime.Seconds + " Seconds");
}
}
You could have it set int values instead of the ready-made string, if you prefer.

[Bumble B]

Instead of reinventing the wheel and doing the math manually, I'd use an inline function:

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using System;

public class VAInline
{
public void main()
{
DateTime startTime = VA.GetDate("startTime") ?? DateTime.MinValue;
TimeSpan elapsedTime = DateTime.Now - startTime;
VA.SetText("elapsedTime", "Start Date & Time (" + startTime + "):- Mission time: " + elapsedTime.Days + " Days : " + elapsedTime.Hours + " Hours :  " + elapsedTime.Minutes + " Minutes :  " + elapsedTime.Seconds + " Seconds");
}
}
You could have it set int values instead of the ready-made string, if you prefer.

Not sure what you mean by the ready-made string. I can't readily see where I would put a start date cause right now its calculates from 01/01/0001 00:00:00

Separate command to set the start date

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Set date [startTime] value to 13/01/2019 20:20:20 (save value to profile)

Found that part

and how would I make it update every second or min? It seems to take a few seconds for it to update when i do execute the script

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using System;

public class VAInline
{
public void main()
{
DateTime startTime = VA.GetDate("startTime") ?? DateTime.MinValue;
TimeSpan elapsedTime = DateTime.Now - startTime;
VA.SetText("elapsedTime", " Distant Worlds 2 Mission time: " + elapsedTime.Days + " Days : " + elapsedTime.Hours + " Hours :  " + elapsedTime.Minutes + " Minutes :  " + elapsedTime.Seconds + " Seconds");
}
}


[Pfeil]

Update what exactly? Running the inline function and writing to a text file should only take a few milliseconds.

[Bumble B]

ok my bad, i was updating the .txt file though my network on another computer. Sorted it now and updates every second when I put it in a start loop while stateTime is has been set

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Start Loop While : [startTime] Has Been Set
Inline C# Function:
Pause 1 second
DISABLED - Write [Blue] '{TXT:elapsedTime}' to log
Write (overwrite), '{TXT:elapsedTime}' to file '%USERPROFILE%\Documents\EDDI2\Exploration\Expedition Time.txt'
End Loop


[Bumble B]

possible to get this so show weeks too? I tried just adding + elapsedTime.Weeks + " Weeks : " into the inline code but get errors

[Pfeil]

The largest unit of time that the TimeSpan structure uses to measure duration is a day. Time intervals are measured in days for consistency, because the number of days in larger units of time, such as months and years, varies.

If you need weeks, you'll have to do the math. Assuming you're dealing with blocks of 7 days, that could look like this:

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using System;

public class VAInline
{
public void main()
{
DateTime startTime = VA.GetDate("startTime") ?? DateTime.MinValue;
TimeSpan elapsedTime = DateTime.Now - startTime;

int remainingDays = 0;
int weeks = Math.DivRem(elapsedTime.Days, 7, out remainingDays);

VA.SetText("elapsedTime", "Start Date & Time (" + startTime + "):- Mission time: " + weeks + " Weeks : " + remainingDays + " Days : " + elapsedTime.Hours + " Hours :  " + elapsedTime.Minutes + " Minutes :  " + elapsedTime.Seconds + " Seconds");
}
}

[Bumble B]

beautiful just beautiful

many thanks