Situation Room

Example 142

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Printing the time of day in 24-hour time, as in military situations.

Though Inform normally prints times in AM/PM terms, it stores the hours and minutes as 24-hour time; so, if we like, we can easily extract that information again thus:

Play/modify in Borogove

Play in Quixe

"Situation Room"

The Situation Room is a room.

To say (relevant time - a time) as 24h time:

let H be the hours part of relevant time;

let M be the minutes part of relevant time;

say "[if H is less than 10]0[end if][H][if M is less than 10]0[end if][M]".

When play begins:

now the time of day is 6:09 PM;

now the right hand status line is "[time of day as 24h time]".

Test me with "z".

Situation Room

>(Testing.)

>[1] z
Time passes.