From afa81243015bcb691a32a2e0650f76af61a244f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony <1414927+zfbTony@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 05:41:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added date/time stamps option to console log

---
 Engine/source/console/console.cpp | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Engine/source/console/console.cpp b/Engine/source/console/console.cpp
index a383ae524..8916699ba 100644
--- a/Engine/source/console/console.cpp
+++ b/Engine/source/console/console.cpp
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ S32 gObjectCopyFailures = -1;
 
 bool alwaysUseDebugOutput = true;
 bool useTimestamp = false;
+bool useRealTimestamp = false;
 
 ConsoleFunctionGroupBegin( Clipboard, "Miscellaneous functions to control the clipboard and clear the console.");
 
@@ -374,6 +375,10 @@ void init()
    addVariable("Con::useTimestamp", TypeBool, &useTimestamp, "If true a timestamp is prepended to every console message.\n"
       "@ingroup Console\n");
 
+   // controls whether a real date and time is prepended to every console message
+   addVariable("Con::useRealTimestamp", TypeBool, &useRealTimestamp, "If true a date and time will be prepended to every console message.\n"
+      "@ingroup Console\n");
+
    // Plug us into the journaled console input signal.
    smConsoleInput.notify(postConsoleInput);
 }
@@ -612,6 +617,13 @@ static void _printf(ConsoleLogEntry::Level level, ConsoleLogEntry::Type type, co
          buffer[i] = ' ';
    }
 
+   if (useRealTimestamp)
+   {
+      Platform::LocalTime lt;
+      Platform::getLocalTime(lt);
+      offset += dSprintf(buffer + offset, sizeof(buffer) - offset, "[%d/%d/%d %02d:%02d:%02d]", lt.monthday, lt.month + 1, lt.year + 1900, lt.hour, lt.min, lt.sec);
+   }
+
    if (useTimestamp)
    {
       static U32 startTime = Platform::getRealMilliseconds();