How to get current system time

Question

Hi, I am new to GDScript. Been trying to look at the API but I don't seem to find anything related to date and time. How do I get the system time?

Answer 1

OS.get_time() returns dictionary with three values: hour, minute and second
example:

var timeDict = OS.get_time();
var hour = timeDict.hour;
var minute = timeDict.minute;
var seconds = timeDict.second;

Comments

Thanks! This is exactly what I'm looking for :)

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no problem :)

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is it limited only up to the hour? or can we also get the date of the current time?

Answer 2

Here is a method to get it in a more curated form

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var time = OS.get_time()
var time_return = String(time.hour) +":"+String(time.minute)+":"+String(time.second)

Answer 3

I had a similar question. I needed the unix timestamp in milliseconds. This function was what I was looking for: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_os.html#class-os-method-get-system-time-msecs

Answer 4

OS.get_time() was deprecated in the latest versions of Godot 3 and was removed from Godot 4.

In both Godot 3 and Godot 4, you can use the singleton Time for this task:

• Time.get_time_dict_from_system() to get a dictionary with hour, minute, and second (same behavior as the old OS.get_time()).
• Time.get_time_string_from_system() can be used to get a preformatted string in the format HH:MM:SS.

Comments

And Time.get_datetime_string_from_system() if you want to include date, the format is YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.