I just spent 7 hours finding this out.
I change the info on this in the Wiki, but now I have to check all my scripts that used this, ALL OF THEM! ALL MY MODS! :banghead:

I was getting message B when I should have got message A after a one time only flash of message B.

I discovered that SCAGameDay was 27 BUT GameDay was returning 27.27
So I change the short to a float and now the script works as it should.

But 27.27 seems...to much of a coincidence, like I am still missing something or my conclusion is wrong in some way.

;was short SCAGameDay;now it isFloat SCAGameDay if SCAGameday == Gamedayset MessagePTS to ( gamehour -  SCAClock )message"A points %.2f"MessagePTSset SCAPoints to ( SCApoints +  ( gamehour -  SCAClock ) )set SCAClock to gamehourelseset MessagePTS to ( gamehour + ( 23 - SCAClock ) )message"B points %.2f  SCAGameday %.2f gameday %.2f"MessagePTS SCAGameDay gamedayset SCAPoints to ( SCApoints + ( gamehour + ( 23 - SCAClock ) ) )set SCAClock to gamehour set SCAGameDay to GameDay endif

Same with Timers. They should all be floats if you want to use real time, with functions like GetSecondsPassed.

They can be used as shorts however if you want to use it as a countdown that runs every frame (i.e. each execution of the script).

I am not talking about timers or getsecondspassed functions, only a direct "simple" compare of two "shorts"

if SCAGAMEDAY == GAMEDAY

But either way this was not in the Wiki as such.

Why the :swear: was it listed as a short ?

After doing a search of the word GAMEDAY I found some people with the same problem in their scripts but no "answers" to their issue.
And either they never got their script to work or they did and then did not repost this short float "thing" after they discovered what the issue was.

"why wont my script work right" type questions with the GAMEDAY set to a short.

<_<

Most likely because the CS itself lists it as a short. Jorne made a note about the issue http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Talk:Special_variables#Errors_on_page. That was last year, it should have been updated then. Thanks for doing this now.

But I do not see that GAMEDAY is talked about, just the GAMEHOUR.

Anyway it will not be an issue now.