Re: Time

[Li An]

Thanks. It worked. Li
>
> 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 lis
t
>  > 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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