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I wrote a small library for handling date and time values.

// Name : Date and time functions
// Author : Ingmar Stieger / Papillon
// Modified : August 04, 2002
// Version : 0.1

// Implemented datatype
// * DateTime

// Implemented functions
// * addDateTime() : Add two DateTimes
// * subDateTime() : Substract two DateTimes
// * compareDateTime() : Compare two DateTimes
// * getCurrentDateTime() : Return current DateTime
// * newDateTime() : Create new DateTime with given values
// * SetLocalDateTime() : Set oObject's local DateTime variable to date
// * GetLocalDateTime() : Get oObject's local DateTime variable
// * debugPrintDateTime() : Print DateTime for debugging purposes

// See function headers for details
//
// Example:
/* object oPC = GetPCSpeaker();

struct DateTime date1 = getCurrentDateTime();
struct DateTime date2 = newDateTime(0,0,0,8); // 8 hours later
struct DateTime finished = addDateTime(date1, date2);

SetLocalDateTime(oPC, "forge_shortsword_blade_finished", finished);
*/

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The source is too long to post here, but I've attached it as a .erf file.

You need to edit this a bit.

We don't want to store each variable seperately as a Persistant Variable.

Encode all the date/time variables into one deliminated string (don't use | pipes as a deliminator).

Then Make that set that string as persitant.

When your get the persistant string, simply decode the string into it's seperate date/time components.

The Persistant Date script get's too large too fast if you save 7+ variables every time for this functionality.

Otherwise, this code is very cool. I'll be using it for my tracking scripts.

Updated version 0.2

* Date encoding added as suggested by Silk

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