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Question by shay4545 · Aug 21, 2014 at 09:14 PM · c#cs0246

CS0246: The type or namespace name `DateTime' could not be found.

I'm trying to make it so that you get a life for every real life minute you are playing my game (not while offline). I have this script in C# but Im getting an error saying:

error CS0246: The type or namespace name `DateTime' could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?

The script I have is this:

     DateTime oldDate;                        //the time that the game started
     DateTime currentDate;                    //the time since the start of the game
     int minutes;                            //the time passed in minutes
     int livesGiven;    
 
 void Start()
 {
         minutes = 0;                                        //the number of minutes we have been on is 0
         oldDate = System.DateTime.Now;                        //the oldDate is the time at the start of the game
     }
 
     void Update()
     {
             currentDate = System.DateTime.Now;                //the current time is now
             minutes = currentDate.Minute - oldDate.Minute;    //the number of minutes passed is equal to the time right now minus the time the game was started
             if(minutes > livesGiven)    //if a minute has passed
             {
                 Lives++;                //add a life
                 livesGiven++;            //add 1 to the number of lives given
         }




This is just part of the code I do have a lives system and everything but the only errors I am getting are with 'DateTime'

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Answer by rutter · Aug 21, 2014 at 09:15 PM

You need to either include the appropriate namespace or use a fully qualified class name every time you mention DateTime.

In particular, your variable declarations up top don't use a fully qualified name.

Like this:

 System.DateTime oldDate;
 System.DateTime currentDate;
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