Can anybody please help me turn a number variable (which represents the number of days passed since the game started) into a date in the “January 15, 2021” format? Game would start on January 1, 2021, and I have a number variable “day”. Purpose is to have the current date displayed in the status line, so I need a “to say current_date” routine. Any help appreciated! Couldn’t find anything in the documentation.
Yeah, don’t think this is built into Inform, but pretty easy to whip up. Here’s a dummy version (with jumping repurposed to both increment and display the date so you confirm it all works):
Day-number is a number that varies. Day-number is initially 0.
Report jumping:
Increment day-number;
Say "Day number:[day-number][line break]";
Say "Calendar date:[calendar date]".
To say calendar date:
If day-number is greater than 334:
say "December [day-number minus 334]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 304:
say "November [day-number minus 304]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 273:
say "October [day-number minus 273]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 243:
say "September [day-number minus 243]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 212:
say "August [day-number minus 212]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 181:
say "July [day-number minus 181]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 151:
say "June [day-number minus 151]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 120:
say "May [day-number minus 120]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 90:
say "April [day-number minus 90]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 59:
say "March [day-number minus 59]";
Otherwise if day-number is greater than 31:
say "February [day-number minus 31]";
Otherwise:
say "January [day-number]".
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Oh. Yeah well, that did the trick. Thanks!
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