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FengMaster

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is gamelog.txt has date/time?
« on: August 15, 2021, 07:43:03 pm »
I have just contacted DF, and I want to ask, the gamelog.txt file does not seem to have a date, but in the (a)announcement of the game, it seems that each record corresponds to a time (shown in the lower left corner). May I ask if Is there a way to calculate the time of each record in the gamelog?

My purpose is just to know the specific time of the announcement.

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Re: is gamelog.txt has date/time?
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2021, 08:19:56 pm »
I opened a vanilla DF gamelog.txt in a hex editor and there appeared to be no hidden game data for the day of the event.
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Re: is gamelog.txt has date/time?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2021, 12:31:27 pm »
Unfortunately, if you need the timestamp for an announcement you can only get it for the most recent ~1000 announcements, and Combat/Hunting/Sparring reports might count toward this limit (and cause your normal announcements to disappear quickly).

To answer your question, no, there is no way to get the date of an announcement from gamelog.txt.
« Last Edit: August 19, 2021, 12:34:21 pm by Quietust »
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Re: is gamelog.txt has date/time?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2021, 05:57:04 pm »
It’s not quite clear from the OP whether you mean in general, or whether you can figure out times for a gamelog.txt you already have in hand. In the latter case, I guess you could look for seasons passing to compute an extremely rough time estimate.

If the gamelog.txt in question hasn’t been made yet, you have more possible avenues to pursue. You could also probably figure out a way with DFHack scripting to drop a time stamp into the log every hour. Perhaps there might even be a way to have DFHack output a time stamp on every line, but I bet that would be a lot harder.
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