AbsoluteMinutes

Total minutes elapsed since the current run began, measured on the project’s in-fiction clock rather than wall-clock time. The counter grows monotonically and never wraps, even though the clock-of-day itself wraps every 24 hours.

Category: Time Returns: int

Signature

AbsoluteMinutes()

No arguments.

Examples

AbsoluteMinutes() >= 30       // at least half an hour in-fiction
AbsoluteMinutes() < 5         // within the first five minutes
AbsoluteMinutes() > FromHours(2)
                              // more than two hours have passed

Notes

• Requires time to be enabled for the project (Project, then Time). With time disabled, any expression using this function fails validation.
• The counter only moves when an event advances the clock: an Advance Time event adds a fixed number of minutes, and a Set Time Bucket event jumps forward to the start of the named time bucket. It never advances on its own with real-world time.
• Renamed from MinutesSinceStart; projects written against the old name are updated by the rename migration.
• The time variable is a legacy alias of AbsoluteMinutes(), auto-declared when time is enabled. Prefer calling AbsoluteMinutes() directly in new expressions: the validator warns on bare time because the name reads as clock-of-day rather than the elapsed total it actually holds.
• For clock-of-day rather than elapsed time, use CurrentHour, CurrentMinute, or IsTimeBetween.