Re: Time

[gepr]

Li An writes:
 > In a Java Swarm modeling, suppose I have a simulation of 15 years. If I 
 > want to report something (say, age of a person, person[1]) at a certain 
 > year  (year j), should I use Globals.env.getCurrentTime() to represent that 
 > time?
 > 
 > For instance, in regular Java code, it should look like this:
 > ...
 > for (int j=0;j<endTime;j++) {
 > ...
 > d=(Person)personList.get(1);//want to take out the second person in the list
 > System.out.println("At year "+(j+1)+"person 1's age is "+d.getAge());
 > ...
 > }
 >   Should we use Globals.env.getCurrentTime() to replace j in above print 
 > command? In a Swarm /Java code for the same job, do we not usually use the 
 > for loop to control time? Instead, we let the schedule to control the time 
 > by using something like "modelSchedule.at$createAction(0,modelActions)"?

getCurrentTime() will return the time relative to the master 
schedule.  So, if each cycle of the top level swarm consists
of 1 year, then yes.  You should use that.

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