ScenEdit_CurrentTime doesn't match Zulu time?

[Whicker]

local TimeVar = ScenEdit_CurrentTime();
print (os.date("%A %B %d %H%M ",TimeVar)); -- same result if I do just %c

When I do this in the console it is returning a different time - the game is telling me it is 2159 Z or 1659 local, but the script returns 1459. the date is correct, just the hour doesn't match anything.

I tried this in a couple tutorials and got more or less the same thing - the script doesn't match the zulu time.

Why is this? the docs say "The UTC Unix timestamp of the current time in-game."

Also, what I would prefer is the time relative to a timezone, but I can't figure that out other than adding seconds to the raw epoch number to change the hours to what I want it to be - is there an easier way? that actually seems pretty easy though.

[Whicker]

Interesting - it was always off in the console, but I stuck it in the game and it is giving me local time to florida which is where the map is zoomed in to - and what I wanted.

it is not giving me UTC/Zulu.

[Rory Noonan]

Try this:

local TimeVar = ScenEdit_CurrentTime()
print (os.date("!%A %B %d %H%M ",TimeVar))

Also the semicolons are not necessary

[Whicker]

Ah - I saw the ! in another post saying it was for UTC, but forgot and was looking for at the docs where it isn't mentioned.

Turned out my second post above was incorrect, I had an orphan variable that was screwing it up - so it was still off by 2 hours. I am adding 7200 on to the epoch time and it is returning what I want now.