REALTIME to Variable (Time class)

[deilin]

Looking in the script help > Standard Library > Built-in Classes > Object

I came across the Time class, which from what I can read, looks at the time/date settings of the host OS.

I can get Time.now to display a long unneeded display of the date and time, how do I get it to just display certain data, and even store it into variables?

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Based on the help file:


Time.strftime(format)


where format can be:

Spoiler

%A


Day of the week (Sunday, Monday ... )


%a


Day of the week in abbreviated form (Sun, Mon ... )


%B


Month (January, February ... )


%b


Month in abbreviated form (Jan, Feb ... )


%c


Date and time


%d


Day of the month (01-31)


%H


Time of day in 24-hour format (00-23)


%I


Time of day in 12-hour format (01-12)


%j


Day of the year (001-366)


%M


Minutes (00-59)


%m


Month of the year (01-12)


%p


AM or PM


%S


Seconds (00-60, 60 being a leap second)


%U


Week of the year, with the first week starting on the first Sunday (00-53)


%W


Week of the year, with the first week starting on the first Monday (00-53)


%w


Day of the week (0-6 where 0 denotes Sunday)


%X


Time


%x


Date


%Y


Year in 4-digit format


%y


Year in 2-digit format (00-99)


%Z


Time zone


%%


The character %

if you wanna save into a variable:


variable_name = Time.strftime(format)


like:


$game_variables[1] = Time.strftime(%c)


or probably


$game_variables[1] = Time.strftime("%c")


Just read the whole Help entry for Time class...

 

[deilin]

It errors out:

No Method for strftime

or tSTRING error

or %string error

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

It errors out:


No Method for strftime


or tSTRING error


or %string error

try Time.now.strftime(format)


I think that should work (using Time directly doesn't have an object, so we fetch the current time object using the class method Time.now)

 

[deilin]

that was it.

it unlocked all of the class calls. thanks