UTurista: Creating BF2 Time

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Creating BF2 Time

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Time is principly measured within Battlefield 2 by means of "wall time"--the time in high-resolution seconds since the server started running (e.g. "443.451488108"). Note that since the BF2 server does not restart between rounds (unlike the servers for Battlefield: 1942 and Battlefield: Vietnam, which both practially reboot between rounds), wall time continues to increase from round to round.

The current wall time can be determined this way:
timeNow = host.timer_getWallTime()

Most ''(all?)'' time-related measurements inside BF2 are in seconds, and are based on wall time.

Other time functions are also available; for example:
import time
epochTime = time.time() # Gives current [[wikipedia:Unix Epoch|epoch time]] (seconds since 1970 Jan 1)

# Or, to get a formatted string containing a more user-friendly date and time:
dateString = time.strftime("%m-%d-%y %H:%M")

See the [http://python.org/doc/2.3.4/lib/module-time.html Python Library Reference] for more information about ways to manipulate dates and times in Python.

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