GameTime function

[Stormknight]

I spent a while previously looking for functions that return ingame time or weather and there's nothing in the documentation on the wiki. There may be functions buried within the ZO API, but I don't have access to documentation on that.

Frame delta seconds is the number of milliseconds since the previous frame rendered.

[skyraker]

As far as I know, there is not a way to tell what the in-game time is right now.

EDIT: Guess I was wrong about GetGameTimeRemaining. It is still there.

[Tyx]

GetGameTimeRemaining is for Alliance War only, or isn't it? If I test the function outside PvP (didn't test it inside until now) it shows only a 0.

Maybe we can emulate a weather function if we now how long a day lasts.

Does anybody know?

The FAQ says it is ~5h but i don't really think that this is true because it wouldn't make much sense that a day is not a divider of 24.
Some player state that a day lasts 8h, I try to test this right now.

[Nogaruk]

Edit: I think I miss read what you were asking. You're looking for the tamriel world time?

if so, I didn't see you mention
GetGameTimeMilliseconds() - Returns: integer gameTimeInMilliseconds

There are a few relative globals and functions as well as Formatting for time and clock time. Probably isn't a difference, but might be worth exploring. I'm not sure we have access to the games world time, though.

I don't recall anywhere in the game that they show game time. It seems as if everything they do is based on real world time. The only thing I can even think of that is game time related is the day/night cycle. So your best bet might actually be to use the midnight function, figure out how long an in-game day takes, and adjust for it yourself.

These may be real world related
GetTimeString() - Returns: string currentTimeString
GetFormattedTime() - Returns: integer formattedTime
EVENT_SHOW_TIME (bool state)
SI_STR_TIME_DESC_DAYS_HOURS_MINUTES_AND_SECONDS
TIME_FORMAT_STYLE_RELATIVE_TIMESTAMP - Not sure what relative is to in this case

[Tyx]

Yes I am looking for a way to emulate (with the 8h model) or get the current (ingame) time in Tamriel.

GetGameTime...() returns the time you spend in the game this session.

I would test the EVENT but I have no idea how to use that^^
Can we start events too? I thought until now we can only do something if an event occurs.

The SI_STR... gives back "203"
and the other TIME_FORMAT... will give back "10".

I think the API really doesn't contain a function to ask for the time.
Which is sad because Vamps need to know the time (ok they can look to the sky^^) for best use of their abilities.

EDIT forgot the other two^^
GetTimeString() = hh:mm:ss
GetFormattedTime() = hhmmss

[skyraker]

EVENT_SHOW_TIME is definitely not in the new API.

[Flamage]

Does this help?

local localTimeSinceMidnight = GetSecondsSinceMidnight()
local text = ZO_FormatTime(localTimeSinceMidnight, TIME_FORMAT_STYLE_CLOCK_TIME, TIME_FORMAT_PRECISION_TWELVE_HOUR)

[Stormknight]

Originally Posted by Flamage Does this help? local localTimeSinceMidnight = GetSecondsSinceMidnight() local text = ZO_FormatTime(localTimeSinceMidnight, TIME_FORMAT_STYLE_CLOCK_TIME, TIME_FORMAT_PRECISION_TWELVE_HOUR)

That's real world time since midnight.