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REQ: new macro that outputs dates as yyyy.mm.dd
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm always frustrated when I want to record a demo and it overwrites an existing one.
One way to avoid that is to append a timestamp to the demo file name, which is already supported, using something like bind F12 "record $date-$mapname". The problem is that $date outputs the date as "day.month.year" which, although thankfully saner than "month.day.year" some countries insist on using, messes up the sorting by file name.
Describe the solution you'd like
Crate a macro named $dateiso which outputs an ISO 8601 like timestamp (yyyy.mm.ddTH.M.S). I can then use that to automatically name demos without having to worry about overwriting an existing file.
Describe alternatives you've considered Ideally, I would like to have something like the automatic match demo recording feature that could be enabled when playing single player/coop levels. Maybe something that could be triggered by a map change. If this is already possible, I wasn't able to figure out how to do it.
Impact on server or mods None. But it would be great if servers auto-recorded MVDs when playing coop.
Patches
I've attached a patch that creates the $dateiso macro I was talking about. The patch will work for the latest release, but will needed a few changes to work with the latest commits in the master branch
By the way, I just found out about triggers. And f_newmap seems to be extremely handy to auto-record demos whenever a map changes.
Just adding alias f_newmap "record $dateiso-$mapname" to the config is enough to make ezQuake record demos automatically during a coop campaign.
@libTorrentUser,
As you might have noticed, there is a PR that takes care of this feature request. I've merged the PR today, so if you have a chance to test/verify the feature with one of the latest snapshots from https://builds.quakeworld.nu/ezquake/snapshots/, it would be awesome!
