addMetaIncrement (
        self,
        incrementValue,
        incrementName,
        )

Add increments in progressively bigger order.

If you want one second = one second mudtime then addMetaIncrement( 1, "second" )

sixty seconds = one minute mudtime then addMetaIncrement( 60, "minute" )

thirty six hundred secs = one hour mudtime then addMetaIncrement( 60*60, "hour" )

or to make the mud faster then real time, fifteen seconds = one mud minute then addMetaIncrement( 15, "minute" )

arguments:

incrementValue

(int) how many increments for this metaincrement

incrementName

(string) name of the metaincrement

createTimeManager ( self )

Override this for subclasses of the TimeManager class.

displayTime ( self )

This will return the formated time of the mud in string form.

returns:

(string) human readable form of the current time

formatTime ( self,  timeIncrements )

This should be overriden to format time however the mud wishes.

arguments:

timeIncrements

(int) increments since the "epoch"

returns:

(string) human readable form of a given time

getIncrementDescription (
        self,
        incrementName,
        incrementNumber,
        )

This allows you to fetch the appropriate description for an increment. If I want the 2(nd) "day" (using the examples in setIncrementDescriptions and addMetaIncrement I would do getIncrememntName( "day", 2 ).

arguments:

incrementName

(string) the name of the meta increment

incrementNumber

(int) which increment value to retrieve

returns:

(string) the name of the increment value

getMudTime ( self )

This will calculate the current mudtime and return a dictionary where the key is the increment name and the value is the amount.

[ ("day", 2), ("month", 5), ("Year", 2001) ] would be equaivalent to The second day of the fifth month of the year 2001.

returns:

list of (string, int) tuples

setIncrementDescriptions (
        self,
        incrementName,
        incrementDescs,
        )

For each MetaIncrement you can define a set of descriptions. So for 7 days = {Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.} do setIncrementDescriptions( "day", ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", etc.] )

arguments:

incrementName

(string) the name of the increment

incrementDescs

(list of strings) the names of the various increment values

setStartInRealTime ( self,  seconds )

This sets the date the mud will starting counting from in order to calculate the mudtime.

arguments:

seconds

(int) ???