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How can I get the current time in Godot?

I'm trying to make a digital clock in my game and need the current time (hours and minutes), formatted as so: HH:MM:SS How can I get the time necessary for this?

Solution

  • You can use the Time singleton, with the get_datetime_dict_from_system method to get the time dictionary from the current system time.

    # Get the time dictionary
var time = Time.get_time_dict_from_system()

print(time) # {day:X, dst:False, hour:xx, minute:xx, month:xx, second:xx, weekday:x, year:xxxx}

    In your case, to format it as HH:MM, you can use the less noisy function get_time_dict_from_system which only has hours, minutes, and seconds

    var time = Time.get_time_dict_from_system()

# we can use format strings to pad it to a length of 2 with zeros, e.g. 01:20:12
print("%02d:%02d:%02d" % [time.hour, time.minute, time.second])

    For older versions of Godot (-3.4), OS.get_time() also works but in 3.5+ it's deprecated and 4.x it's removed: