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Adding an absolute game time would make it easier to know more precisely when there might have been a performance discrepancy (and could match prints in the log if there were any).

realtime is not deterministic and therefore not possible.
You only got game ticks, and you cannot know how long a tick took to render.

In logs - maybe, and i agree this would give us a way to benchmark scripts that is not currently possible.

+1 (log realtime timestamps)

PyroFire wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:29 pm

realtime is not deterministic and therefore not possible.
You only got game ticks, and you cannot know how long a tick took to render.

In logs - maybe, and i agree this would give us a way to benchmark scripts that is not currently possible.

+1 (log realtime timestamps)

Yeah, I'm talking about "factorio-perf" thingies, not anything accessible in-game:
In factorio-current we get timestamps, but in the performance log there's no tick/timestamp. A name is like: Factorio-perf-01779_20191225-170529<hardware>, from which I can discern the date, and presumably hour, minute, second, but is the first number the tick? I'd have to test, vs having it in a cell in the performance log. (I didn't notice the number sequence in the name before, so this might be kind-of moot).

That's the build number. 0.17.79.
And yes the last number is the time in 24 hour time. 170529 = 17h:05m:29s (5pm)

PyroFire wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:18 pm

That's the build number. 0.17.79.
And yes the last number is the time in 24 hour time. 170529 = 17h:05m:29s (5pm)

Hah, clever catch on the version number. That does mean there's no tick-stamp in the log.

Honktown wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:26 pm

clever catch on the version number.

No, putting the build number in there like that is fairly typical.
Knowing that comes with experience.