I've noticed an odd format for times shown in TW. It uses the format HH:MM:SS AM/PM. Since it uses AM/PM, it's not military time, meaning HH should be from 1-12. However, TW displays midnight as 0 rather than 12. So what should be 12:05:15 AM is actually shown as 00:05:15 AM.

My question is, should I fix this, or will it cause problems with scripts and helpers if I change it? I don't have to change it. It's just a bug I noticed.

Minor issue to fix if we need to. Either way is fine.

Cool. Done.

I noticed it while coding some improvements to the announcement screen. It'll now jump to the starting point with a binary search rather than scan from start of file to specified date, so there shouldn't be any more long pauses or unnecessary disk access there.

There aren't that many scripts that use the time format and most of the scripts that do use the time as a trigger are more than likely private scripts used by scripters. This would be a minor change to repair and will effect very few scripts.

Well for those that use it , it will be fun to work out the backward compatibility
so that those scripts work on current public versions of TW as well as this up coming one.

my 2¢

It's a very easy conversion. In any time display of HH:MM:SS AM, if HH is 12 in the new version, it should be 00 in the old one. So for example, 12:08:20 AM would convert to 00:08:20 AM to be compatible with the old version. But I'd be very surprised if any script cared about the hour field of a date. These show up in the log files and when you press T to see the time.

Yea, it's a very easy conversion. If HH = 12 and AM/PM = AM, then set HH to 0 and convert like before. 10 second fix.

I do use HH:MM:SS to create a timestamp I call the "Tradewars Epoch" ... the seconds since Jan 1st, 2002. I use that to track enemy movements thru grid (CIM scans), fighits, etc. Since most people tend to grid in areas that aren't their base, I use that to further refine grid targeting.

I also use it on my red scripts to automatically clear busts in some cases.

Will it be a problem tho? No. It's a very easy fix.