Check if real time passed?

admiralamott

Hey,
I just wanted to see if there was a way to check how much time has passed in real time? Basically the player buys something, and they're allowed to buy again after 8 real time hours. Would this be possible? Thanks!

ChrisIceBox

Presumably they can close/re-open the game in between?

You'd have to use a custom script that records the current system time in seconds, adds 28800 (the number of seconds in 8 hours), and then sets that to a Global Integer Variable.

Create two Global Integer variables named BuyAgainTime and CurrentTime.

Create a new C# script named SetTime.cs and paste in the code below:

using UnityEngine;
using System;

public class SetTime : MonoBehaviour
{

    public void OnBuy ()
    {
        AC.GlobalVariables.GetVariable ("BuyAgainTime").IntegerValue = CurrentTime () + 28800;
    }

    public void UpdateCurrent ()
    {
        AC.GlobalVariables.GetVariable ("CurrentTime").IntegerValue = CurrentTime ();
    }

    private int CurrentTime ()
    {
        DateTime epochStart = new DateTime (1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
        int currentEpochTime = (int)(DateTime.UtcNow - epochStart).TotalSeconds;
        return currentEpochTime;
    }

}

Add it to an empty GameObject, make it a prefab and remove from the scene. You can then use Object: Call event Actions to call the two functions OnBuy and UpdateCurrent within it.

• When the player buys something, call OnBuy. This will update the BuyAgainTime variable to the time (in seconds) that they can buy again (28800 is 8 hours in seconds).
• Before you let the player buy something, call UpdateCurrent. This will update CurrentTime with the current time (in seconds), that you can compare with OnBuy using a Variable: Check Action.

admiralamott

It works!! Thanks so much Chris you're awesome