Displaying the simulation time with the various date/time formats.

[Regan Blackett]

This can be accomplished with the use of a VisualTool object. Simply drag a VisualTool into your model and set it display text. Under "Text Display", choose "Display Time". The code inside gives good ideas about how to display on-screen texts.

If you want to compute the week and day using code, you can do following:

double startTime = 0;
int week = (time()-startTime)/7/24/3600;
int day = (time()-startTime-7*24*3600*week)/24/3600;

In order to display week and day in the VisualTool, replace the code in the Text Display with the following:

treenode current = ownerobject(c);
treenode  textnode = parnode(1);

/**Display Time. Format - Week w, Day d*/
double startTime = 0;
int week = (time()-startTime)/7/24/3600;
int day = (time()-startTime-7*24*3600*week)/24/3600;

string timetext = 
concat(
    "Week ",
    numtostring(week,0,0),", Day ",
    numtostring(day,0,0)
);

setnodestr(textnode, timetext);

[Dan Cremer]

Regan:
This did not work. When I started running the model, the date did not change from "Week 0, Day 0".

[Pablo Concha]

It does work for me, code assumes you're working on seconds, so it may take a while to change days/weeks if you're running the model slow (86400 time units for each day).. you can change the 3600 on the model for 60 to work in minutes... or 1 in hours, etc...

regards,

Pablo Concha E.

[Dan Cremer]

I meant to thank you sooner for your reply.

[JMEngelhart]

How about if I want to display the Day of the week - ie: Sunday, Monday, etc.?

[Pablo Concha]

Originally Posted by JMEngelhart

How about if I want to display the Day of the week - ie: Sunday, Monday, etc.?

Hello,

I think this works... (working on minutes)....

treenode current = ownerobject(c);
treenode  textnode = parnode(1);

/**Display Time. Format - Week w, Day d*/
double startTime = 0;
int week = (time()-startTime)/7/24/60;
int day = (time()-startTime-7*24*60*week)/24/60;

string daystr;

switch(day)
{
    case 0: daystr = "Monday";break;
    case 1: daystr = "Tuesday";break;
    case 2: daystr = "Wednesday";break;
    case 3: daystr = "Thursday";break;
    case 4: daystr = "Friday";break;
    case 5: daystr = "Saturday";break;
    case 6: daystr = "Sunday";break;
}

string timetext = 
concat(
    "Week ",
    numtostring(week,0,0),", ",
    daystr
);

setnodestr(textnode, timetext);

regards,

Pablo Concha E.