Timestamps for take_screnshot{} filenames.

[eradicator]

What?
Any kind of method to include the date and time in the filename of a screenshot.
(Just in the filename, obvously the mod mustn't know the date).

How? (Example)
Similar to a localized string the date could simply be substituted in the filename, i.e.:

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take_screenshot{path="/some/folder/screenshot_(__TIMESTAMP__).png"}

It would then be nice if it's possible to specify a custom date format, but an undecorated sort-friendly ISO format would be fine too.

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take_screnshot{date_format="%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S"}

Ideally this should be as simple to implement as (pseudocode):

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if opts.date_format then string.gsub(opts.path,'__TIMESTAMP__',get_formatted_date(opts.date_format)) end

Why?
Because there is currently no good method (that i know of...) to uniquely name screenshots, resulting in an unorderly clutter of files in my script-output folder at best, and overwriting old screenshots with not-unique-afterall names at worst.

[quyxkh]

I use the current ticks for mine, if I cared I'd add a prefix string setting or something. You could trigger renames off inotifywait or however windows does that, it's where I do format conversions, why should the game need to add ops&admin features the os already provides?