[F a w k e s]

Hello folks,
Is there a function in Daedealus/Ikarus, which would return current date (e.g. today 29.10.2020). I tried to look for such function, but couldn't find anything
I had a silly idea of adding 'easter eggs' (even literally) on certain dates to game, like on Halloween some pumpkins, on Christmas there would be a Christmas tree, or on Easter some colored eggs just a silly small easter egg

[mud-freak]

Hello folks,
Is there a function in Daedealus/Ikarus, which would return current date (e.g. today 29.10.2020). I tried to look for such function, but couldn't find anything
I had a silly idea of adding 'easter eggs' (even literally) on certain dates to game, like on Halloween some pumpkins, on Christmas there would be a Christmas tree, or on Easter some colored eggs just a silly small easter egg

Check out the code in the end of this post (part about SystemTime). The address is from Gothic 2, but content-wise it should be the same in Gothic 1. Mind that this is the local system time, and users may fiddle with it by changing the date and time of their computer.

[F a w k e s]

As always mud-freak you have a solution Thank you! This is exactly what I had in mind
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//Credits: mud-freak
//YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
FUNC STRING GetLocalDateTimeStamp ()
{
    //0075AE08  .text     Debug data           _GetLocalTime@4
    const int _GetLocalTime_G1 = 7712264;
    //0x007B4750 _GetLocalTime@4
    const int _GetLocalTime_G2 = 8079184; //0x7B4750

    var int SystemTimePtr; SystemTimePtr = MEM_Alloc(16); // SystemTime* 0x10
    CALL_PtrParam (SystemTimePtr);
    CALL__stdcall (MEMINT_SwitchG1G2 (_GetLocalTime_G1, _GetLocalTime_G2));

    var string timeStr; timeStr = IntToString(MEM_ReadInt(SystemTimePtr) & 2047);
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, "-");

    var int mm; mm = MEM_ReadInt (SystemTimePtr+2) & 2047;
    if (mm < 10) { timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, "0"); };
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, IntToString(mm));
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, "-");

    var int dd; dd = MEM_ReadInt(SystemTimePtr+6) & 2047;
    if (dd < 10) { timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, "0"); };
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, IntToString(dd));
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, " ");

    var int hh; hh = MEM_ReadInt(SystemTimePtr+8) & 2047;
    if (hh < 10) { timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, "0"); };
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, IntToString(hh));
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, ":");

    var int mi; mi = MEM_ReadInt(SystemTimePtr+10) & 2047;
    if (mi < 10) { timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, "0"); };
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, IntToString(mi));
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, ":");

    var int ss; ss = MEM_ReadInt(SystemTimePtr+12) & 2047;
    if (ss < 10) { timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, "0"); };
    timeStr = ConcatStrings(timeStr, IntToString(ss));

    MEM_Free(SystemTimePtr);
    
    return timeStr;
};

[Moe]

Very cool! Thank you mud-freak and F a w k e s!