# Time Options

Gametime is designed to be flexible and handle custom time periods. At this point, it does not handle more complex scenarios, so it may be worth noting that <mark style="color:red;">**it does not handle**</mark>:

* The gregorian calendar or other real-world based calendars
* Leap years
* Months which have different numbers of days
* Years which have more or less days than the number of months \* number of days per month

With those limitations in place, the system does handle quite a bit. You can set these options in the Inspector.

{% hint style="info" %}
A value of `1` in `Gametime` = 1 "in game minute". The `private` `float` `_subCounter` is used at runtime to keep track of the amount of in-game time that has passed between each minute.

The `float` `secondsPerGameMinute` determines how many real-world seconds pass for each in-game minute. A value of `3.0f` means that every real-world minute, 20 in-game minutes will elapse.
{% endhint %}

```csharp
public bool useAmPm = true; // When writing out the time
public bool monthDayYear = true; // If false, will do Day/Month/Year
[Range(0.5f, 100)] public float realTimeSecondsPerGameMinute = 3.0f; // Real-world seconds per in-game minute
[Range(1, 240)] public int secondsPerMinute = 6-; // In-game seconds per in-game minute
[Range(1, 240)] public int minutesPerHour = 60; // In-game minutes per in-game hour
[Range(1, 240)] public int hoursPerDay = 24; // In-game hours per in-game day
[Range(1, 240)] public int daysPerMonth = 30; // In-game days per in-game month

// You can specify the start time for your project in the Inspector as well
// The values should always be within the ranges you set.
public int startingYear = 1288;
public int startingMinute = 30;
public int startingHour = 9;
public int startingDay = 15;
public int startingMonth = 5;

// The number of days in a week, months in a year, and seasons in a year, are
// determined by the number of names in these lists.
public List<string> dayNames = new List<string>();
public List<string> monthNames = new List<string>();
public List<string> seasonNames = new List<string>();
```

{% hint style="success" %}
**1 gameTime = 1 in-game minute**

**`Now()`** and **`GameTime`** are very similar, but return slightly different things, for different use cases.&#x20;

`GameTime` will return the `int` `_gameTime`, while `Now()` returns a `float`, and will include `subTime` by default.

`subTime` is the measurement of the seconds between in-game minutes.
{% endhint %}