MinutesSinceStart

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

Category: Time Returns: int

Signature

MinutesSinceStart()

No arguments.

Examples

MinutesSinceStart() >= 30       // at least half an hour in-fiction
MinutesSinceStart() < 5         // within the first five minutes

Notes

MinutesSinceStart reads the project’s time-of-day clock. In a project without Time enabled, using it is an authoring error: the validator flags it when the project loads, and at runtime the expression fails with the error “This expression uses time-of-day which is disabled for this project. Enable it in Project → Time.”

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 bucket. It never advances on its own with real-world time.