[KSP 1.1.3] RSS DateTime Formatter v1.0

[Agathorn]

RSS DateTime Formatter

This is a very basic mod with one function, to replace the stock KSP displays of times and dates with an approach better suited for RSS players.  This includes things like showing calendar dates rather than awkward formats like "Year 5, Day 200".

License: CC-BY-NC-SA

Source Code: https://github.com/KSP-RO/RSSTimeFormatter

Latest Release: https://github.com/KSP-RO/RSSTimeFormatter/releases/latest

 

Edited July 5, 2016 by Agathorn

[lextacy]

first! I approve!  My goal is to parallel a space program with the years matching up to the real ones and without  them going wacky due to time warping stuff!  Holy crapp that should be a reddit challenge   My starting year would be about 1942 and I would start the career mode with BD armoury and do all the WW2 tanks and fighter planes with bombers and stuff!

Edited May 8, 2016 by lextacy

[vgamble]

Great mod! 

[leudaimon]

Great! This will increase immersion and allow for launching "real" missions with the correct dates much more easily!

Edited May 8, 2016 by leudaimon
Typo

[JeeF]

Now its just a matter of getting KCT's development time to match your goals =P

[NathanKell]

@JeeF I did ask for KCT to support an absolute date option, and to properly handle time offsets. @magico13 is truly awesome about fulfilling our requests, so I doubt it'll be a problem.

[magico13]

Just now, NathanKell said:

@JeeF I did ask for KCT to support an absolute date option, and to properly handle time offsets. @magico13 is truly awesome about fulfilling our requests, so I doubt it'll be a problem.

Not this update probably, but next one for sure

[NathanKell]

@magico13 <3

[ExtremeSquared]

That's a nonsensical time in the screenshot. I don't think NASA has ever used the scrambled US civilian date format.

[NathanKell]

It uses localization settings, since it uses base mono methods. Enjoy whatever format floats your boat.

[archenemy_6]

https://pds.nasa.gov/documents/sr/Chapter07.pdf
Apparently there's a whole chapter on the preferred and accepted time formats NASA uses. I had no idea.
Really cool mod though. I'd like to give it try.

[Irenicus]

At last... Thank you!!!

[Stevie_D]

It's the little things like this mod that make RSS more palatable for those on the fence (like me) as to whether to give it a full playthrough or not. So thankyou, Agathorn, you made my anticipation for RO to be fully updated to 1.1.2 even higher.

Edited May 9, 2016 by Stevie_D

[NecroBones]

 

These days my favorite is to use ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 style dates, since it removes ambiguity (and is properly sortable in programs, database tables, etc):

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

Can the display be configured to do that?

[Agathorn]

Currently the date format uses whatever your defined 'locale' is in your operating system.  In the future I am considering building an options UI to allow for manual control over these things, but that probably won't come for a bit.

[NecroBones]

 

OK cool. Great!

 

[rsparkyc]

Are there plans for this to be pushed to CKAN?

Edited May 9, 2016 by rsparkyc

[Guest]

I love you.

[Agathorn]

48 minutes ago, rsparkyc said:

Are there plans for this to be pushed to CKAN?

Eventually.  I need to get around to setting up the NETKAN stuff, which I will probably do at the same time I set up the automated release system.  Needs AVC as well.

[Agathorn]

I've submitted a NETKAN to the CKAN guys, so assuming I didn't mess it up somehow, this should be showing up on CKAN soon.

[Wallygator]

Nice!  Positive vibes and french cheese to you good sir!

[Shadriss]

For my own clarification - does this require RSS, or will this apply similar functionality to stock? I'm not really clear on that from your OP.

[Agathorn]

1 hour ago, Shadriss said:

For my own clarification - does this require RSS, or will this apply similar functionality to stock? I'm not really clear on that from your OP.

This has no dependancies.  It was written for RSS but can be used without if desired.  Bear in mind it does expect time to be in Earth time though, and dates are based on a epoch of 1/1/1950 at the moment, though that will probably be moved into a config later.

[Shadriss]

SO it'll still use 24 hours days vs the 6 hour Kerbin one? Unfortunate - I'd love to see something similar that still uses the stock timing. I have a hard enough time getting out to the Mun and Minmus, let alone outside the local neighborhood to even think about doing RSS.

[NathanKell]

@Shadriss: You can fork it, but you'll have to implement the seconds->date conversion since we in RSS can just take advantage of the real DateTime and TimeSpan classes.