Shanewise's Forum Posts

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  • You're already using expressions. Date.Now is an expression that gives you the current time in unix timestamp format. Date.GetUTCHours gets you the hours from a timestamp, so you put Date.Now in Date.GetUTCHours, resulting in Date.GetUTCHours(Date.Now)

    Now if you want to zeropad the resulting number, you use the zeropad expression. It would be zeropad(Date.GetUTCHours(Date.Now),2), where Date.GetUTCHours(Date.Now) is the number you want padded and 2 is the amount of padding.

    I really appreciate your detailed responses. thank you so much for your patience with me.

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  • Thank you so much for the responses again, Colonel Justice: I think that plugin is gonna work perfectly for what I need.

  • Alright, Thank you.

    I'm completely lost, perhaps I got in over my head on this one!

    I barely understand Expressions, I feel like I'm supposed to add that somewhere in the text but it's really eluding me. (I'm rather a novice)

    I appreciate the quick response, I'd probably better stick to my guns.

  • Here is the text that I used in the event (for the Date_Time_Text object)

    Date.ToLocaleDateString(Date.Now) &" "&"(UTC : "&Date.GetUTCHours(Date.Now)&":"&Date.GetUTCMinutes(Date.Now)&":"&Date.GetUTCSeconds(Date.Now)&")"&" (GMT : "&Date.ToLocaleTimeString(Date.Now)&")"

  • I'm making a timer for my Girlfriend because she has an online job with repeated timed tasks. There are plenty of countdown timers, but I am interested in Construct 3, so I figured it would be a good beginner's task to create the timer.

    I've successfully created a simple timer that counts down in seconds; however, I would like to start learning how to use the date object correctly in this updated timer project. Unfortunately, I'm an advanced graphic artist and novice visual coder, so it's hard to wrap my brain around a few concepts.

    The "Novice timer project" has presented me with a few problems that I'd appreciate help solving if possible.

    1. How do I display a UTC timestamp with leading zeros In a 12-hour format?

    -(00:00:00) the example shows numbers like this: "3:3:4"

    2. How do I then display: "UTC:" 00:00:00 with the addition of an AM or PM meridiem?(AM/PM)

    so, in conclusion, the outcome would hopefully look like this:

    Tuesday, June 7, 2022 UTC: 5:13 PM - MT: 11:13 AM

    (*or something similar*)

    both (UTC) and Mountain Time (MT) in 12-hour format (MT) Please and thank you.

    Any direction you might be able to point me in would be greatly appreciated.

    I have included both a screenshot and the project file sort of explaining things.

    Construct File : https://www.dropbox.com/s/6dlvjptu7i5kylf/Timer_Example.c3p?dl=0

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