Is it possible to access the system time with Fatorio's LUA?

[Pickle]

I would like to make a mod that adds a real world clock to the HUD. Can Fatorio's LUA use os.time or something similar to get the current time on the user's PC?

[rk84]

I though there was "game.time", but seems like there wasn't. os is most likely disabled for security reasons, but mayby they can add lua interface for time.

There is "game.tick" and I noticed you can overwrite it. So you could set it to real time, but you would have to do it everytime you start or load a game and it could cause bad/wierd game behavior. So mayby its not good idea.

[kovarex]

The time isn't accessible (as any function that reads from the outside world, as files etc), to avoid desynrchonisation in replays/multiplayer.

[Reygan]

The time isn't accessible (as any function that reads from the outside world, as files etc), to avoid desynrchonisation in replays/multiplayer.

By the way, are other system lua functions accessible through factorio?

[kovarex]

Shouldn't be.

[ssilk]

Hm. It could be added, if it would be an event, like any other. Instead of "LMB pressed" a "Systime has changed". Every client sends his events every minute or so, the time between could be estimated by a function call...