[solved]what is the best way to make a Calendar run in the background?

[ninjew_42]

I need it to run in the background so I don't need to jump to update the date, month, and year and weekday and hope that I end up jumping back to where I left off.
The player needs to be able to stay up all night if they want to with sleep being an optional trigger for updating the date. Right now I'm using the code below at the end of day and trying it in screens.rpy works for exactly 1 day then it's suddenly August 33rd. Ideally I'd like to do the same for the weekday as well but my brain is fried on this one.

Any help would be amazing.


Variables used:

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default month = "August"
default current_year = 2022
default current_date = 1
default current_weekday = "Monday"
default leap_year = False
default hour = 6
default minute = 0
default minute_alt = "00"
default ampm = "am"
default current_time = "Early Morning"

Weekday Code:

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    $ current_date +=1
    if current_weekday == "Monday":
        $ current_weekday = "Tuesday"
    elif current_weekday == "Tuesday":
        $ current_weekday = "Wednesday"
    elif current_weekday == "Wednesday":
        $ current_weekday = "Thursday"
    elif current_weekday == "Thursday":
        $ current_weekday = "Friday"
    elif current_weekday == "Friday":
        $ player_cash +=0
        $ current_weekday = "Saturday"
    elif current_weekday == "Saturday":
        $ current_weekday = "Sunday"
    else:
        $ current_weekday = "Monday"
    jump end_of_day

Calendar Code (currently in my label end_of_day):

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    if month == "December":
        if current_date == 32:
            $ month = "January"
            $ current_date = 1
            $ current_year += 1
            if current_year == 2024:
                $ leap_year = True
            if current_year == 2028:
                $ leap_year = True
            else:
                $ leap_year = False
    elif month == "November":
        if current_date == 31:
            $ month = "December"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "October":
        if current_date == 32:
            $ month = "November"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "September":
        if current_date == 31:
            $ month = "October"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "August":
        if current_date == 32:
            $ month = "September"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "July":
        if current_date == 32:
            $ month = "August"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "June":
        if current_date == 31:
            $ month = "July"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "May":
        if current_date == 32:
            $ month = "June"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "April":
        if current_date == 31:
            $ month = "May"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "March":
        if current_date == 32:
            $ month = "April"
            $ current_date = 1
    elif month == "Febuary":
        if leap_year:
            if current_date == 30:
                $ month = "March"
                $ current_date = 1
        else:
            if current_date == 29:
                $ month = "March"
                $ current_date = 1
    else:
        if current_date == 32:
            $ month = "Febuary"
            $ current_date = 1

[trooper6]

How does time advance in your game?
Does time advance by an hour for every turn? How to you advance a turn? Or do you want this to go in real time?
Or can the players do as much as they want until they click a "Next Day" button?
If it is Monday and they chose not to sleep...does it just stay Monday?
What do you mean by "run in the background?"

[Remix]

I semi hate to say this (seeing how much work you have obviously done already) ... It might be best to try Python datetime objects through Ren'Py output translation...

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init python:

    import datetime

    class GameTime(object):

        def __init__(self, dt="Jan 01 2018"):
            self._dt = datetime.datetime.strptime( dt, "%d %b %Y" )

        @property
        def dt(self):
            return _strftime("%d %b %Y %H:%M", self._dt.timetuple())

        def alter(self, **kwargs):
            self._dt += datetime.timedelta( **kwargs )


default gt = GameTime("01 Aug 2022")

label start:

    "[gt.dt]"
    $ gt.alter( days=1, hours=22, minutes=30 )
    "[gt.dt]"
    $ gt.alter( days=41 )
    "[gt.dt]"
    $ gt.alter( hours = -29 )
    "Spooky time travel backwards ... [gt.dt]"

Hopefully enough there to get you started... *cough* umm started in another direction...

[ninjew_42]

I'm not quite to the advancing of time yet but essentially the player clicks a button (like go outside to a store 30 minutes away) and the button will increase the minutes which in turn will increase hours, then days, then months, and years. I was trying to get the big stuff running first.
Different Actions or movement to different areas increase minutes and/or hours by different amounts.
When it hits midnight it should immediately switch over from Monday to Tuesday and so on for each new day.

I think I found a way to get it to work without any problems by having a label call that returns at the end back to where it was called from using the information from this-
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/label.html

It is working thus far.