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* Be aware that if the game is saved and reloaded a week later the date and time will be different, so if activating eastereggs in a singleplayer game or something you may want to only check when a level is loaded and then keep the same easteregg state throughout the level so that the easteregg does not deactivate when reloading from a savegame (also be aware that precaches should not depend on such date/time code because reloading a savegame often scrambles the precaches if so!).
 
* Be aware that if the game is saved and reloaded a week later the date and time will be different, so if activating eastereggs in a singleplayer game or something you may want to only check when a level is loaded and then keep the same easteregg state throughout the level so that the easteregg does not deactivate when reloading from a savegame (also be aware that precaches should not depend on such date/time code because reloading a savegame often scrambles the precaches if so!).
 
* This function can return a NULL string (you can check for it with if (!s)) if the localtime/gmtime functions returned NULL in the engine code, such as if those functions don't work on this platform (consoles perhaps?), so be aware that this may return nothing.
 
* This function can return a NULL string (you can check for it with if (!s)) if the localtime/gmtime functions returned NULL in the engine code, such as if those functions don't work on this platform (consoles perhaps?), so be aware that this may return nothing.
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