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Which ZULU/LOCAL time are you talking about? The Environment variables? In that case it's like it says in the docs... seconds since start of day. It returns a floating point value... presumably milliseconds? But the whole number part corresponds to seconds since midnight, either Zulu or local time.
The top result is read as an integer, the lower one is read as a double.
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The top result is read as an integer, the lower one is read as a double.
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What is this? Look completely alien. How do i used that on simconnect?!
Anyway, I just came back to write that the solution was to get year,month,day to build the day, then add zulutime.
Quite ugly.
I couldn't make absolute time work, tried adding it to year 0, year 1900, year 2000 and year 1970. Always produces a bad timestamp.
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Crap, it's year 1. That makes sense, that's the common way to calculate time.
Anyway, I just came back to write that the solution was to get year,month,day to build the day, then add zulutime.
C#:
_simconnect.AddToDataDefinition(DataDefinitions.FlightData, "Zulu year", "number", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.INT32, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED);
_simconnect.AddToDataDefinition(DataDefinitions.FlightData, "zulu month of year", "number", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.INT32, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED);
_simconnect.AddToDataDefinition(DataDefinitions.FlightData, "zulu day of month", "number", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.INT32, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED);
_simconnect.AddToDataDefinition(DataDefinitions.FlightData, "zulu time", "seconds", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.INT32, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED);
// then where I consume that:
var day = new DateTime(data.zuluYear, data.zuluMonth, data.zuluDay, 0, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
var time = day.AddSeconds(data.zuluTime);
ActiveFlight.StartTime = time;Quite ugly.
I couldn't make absolute time work, tried adding it to year 0, year 1900, year 2000 and year 1970. Always produces a bad timestamp.
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Crap, it's year 1. That makes sense, that's the common way to calculate time.
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Wait, what...? Those are valid variable names for SimConnect? They're not valid Sim Vars ("A" type)... at least a gauge API lookup doesn't return a valid ID for them. How did you find those in the first place? Weird!
The screenshot is from my WASimCommander project's UI, which I've mentioned previously I think. It uses the WASM part of that project on the back-end which essentially gives access to some useful gauge API functions.
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The screenshot is from my WASimCommander project's UI, which I've mentioned previously I think. It uses the WASM part of that project on the back-end which essentially gives access to some useful gauge API functions.
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I just fiddled with it - found this forum post:
forums.flightsimulator.com
And then I was looking for the var names and got to this page:
But you see, here it says Jan 1 0000. I got numbers and had trouble getting the right data time, as you can see it only says "number" which makes sense for js or html gauges...
Anyway, I found out that using SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.INT32 with UInt32 in C# gets me a number that kinda makes sense. But I couldn't make it work.
I saw the ZULU TIME var was too small to be a timestamp.
I was trying the approach above just as you linked the newer documentation which makes a whole lot more sense!
How to read Simulator Time?
I’m using the sample SimVars program and finding most of the variables I need, but one thing I can’t find yet - the sim’s local and/or UTC time stamp. I’m trying to track block times - the duration of time between parking brake release and when the parking brake is set for the last time. Any...
forums.flightsimulator.com
But you see, here it says Jan 1 0000. I got numbers and had trouble getting the right data time, as you can see it only says "number" which makes sense for js or html gauges...
Anyway, I found out that using SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.INT32 with UInt32 in C# gets me a number that kinda makes sense. But I couldn't make it work.
I saw the ZULU TIME var was too small to be a timestamp.
I was trying the approach above just as you linked the newer documentation which makes a whole lot more sense!
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Yea the P3D docs leave out some details.... LOL! But even there is says they're "E" type variables. Makes me wonder yet again exactly how much of SimConnect is undocumented. Cool find though!
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