a way to synchronize the system to a timestamp

[ratacat]

I am currently using something like this...which doesn't use any particular custom units, or their respective make functions. But it lets me synchronize the time to the real world, which I like. Also it prevents the game time from restarting every time the mud reboots (and I don't have to worry about saving it to disk or anything).

If this seems like a good feature to you, maybe I'll try to write it in a modular fashion to account for custom units and make functions.

here's my current manual way of doing it

function getSynchronize(datetime){
    let yfloat = (datetime * 48) / 31536000000;
    let ywhole = Math.floor(yfloat);
    let yremainder = yfloat - ywhole;

    let mfloat = yremainder * 12;
    let mwhole = Math.floor(mfloat);
    let mremainder = mfloat - mwhole;

    let dfloat = mremainder * 30;
    let dwhole = Math.floor(dfloat);
    let dremainder = dfloat - dwhole;

    let hfloat = dremainder * 24;
    let hwhole = Math.floor(hfloat);
    let hremainder = hfloat - hwhole;

    let ifloat = hremainder * 60;
    let iwhole = Math.floor(ifloat);
    let iremainder = ifloat - iwhole;

    return {minute: iwhole, hour: hwhole, day: dwhole, month: mwhole, year: ywhole - 2000};
}

An integrated function could be called with something like

let syncTo.timestamp = Date.now();
syncTo.offsets[customUnit] = -230
syncTo.offsets[otherCustomUnit] = +23
syncTo.conversionRatio = 48 // 1unit
syncTo.conversionUnit = 'minute'

or just add options in the config itself is probably a better idea...

state.TimeCrunch = new TimeCrunch(config,syncTo);

[seanohue]

Yes, it would be nice to be able to define a relation between the smallest defined unit of fantasy time and real-world milliseconds. I'd be open to that. Not sure about relying on the JavaScript Date object, though, but you're welcome to take a swing at a PR. Thanks for trying this out!