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[tomudzjeris]

Hello,

My game uses timer function which converts real number to local time format. It is not windows time, but the time from the start of the game. This feature works very nice if you have 23:59:59 time format. But if you are you using 11:59 AM/PM format, it shows AM or PM at the end of time. Is there a way that it always uses 23:59:59 time format and doesn't show AM or PM?

//Alarm[0] event:
global.timer += 1/(3600*24);     // Seconds increases by 1 
alarm[0] = 30;         // Reloads alarm event

//Draw event:
draw_text(560, view_yview[0]+176, string(date_time_string(global.timer)));

[tomudzjeris]

Has anyone any ideas how to do it? I use this function for faster time retrieval, but the main problem is that it doesn't work properly if computer uses 12 hour format with PM and AM. Maybe I can write a script that somehow local system time format converts to 24 hour format. If this isn't answered then I will have to stick with a lot of timer variables and if functions...

[jsorgeagames]

I don't know if this helps but current_time is the time in milliseconds since the computer was started. So you could set a variable to current_time when the game starts and then every step set global.timer to that variable minus current_time.