What's a much better method for a MM/DD/YYY feature?

The first step is to get the days to go up.

I couldn't find a single tutorial on how to do that, so I tried to figure it out myself, I feel like I am close, but not only is this not professional and messy, the number glitches when it goes up to the next day, it flickers to get there.

After 5 seconds it goes to the next day in the month. I had to hard code the next day number after each yield return new because I tried a different method with way less lines of code and the number wouldnt stop going up after it reached the last day of the month.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.UI;
5.  
6. public class Day : MonoBehaviour
7. {
8.  
9.  
10.       public Text dayText;
11.       public int dayValue = 01;
12.  
13.  
14.  
15. void Start()
16.     {
17.  
18.         dayText = GetComponent<Text>();
19.  
20.     }
21.  
22.     void Update()
23.     {
24.  
25.         dayText.text = dayValue + " /";
26.         StartCoroutine("Wait");
27.  
28.     }
29.  
30.     private IEnumerator Wait()
31.     {
32.      
33.      
34.        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
35.         dayValue = 02;
36.  
37.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
38.         dayValue = 03;
39.  
40.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
41.         dayValue = 04;
42.  
43.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
44.         dayValue = 05;
45.  
46.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
47.         dayValue = 06;
48.  
49.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
50.         dayValue = 07;
51.  
52.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
53.         dayValue = 08;

 

Try the C# DateTime type. It has lots of useful methods for dealing with dates, including adding days to a date just like you're trying to do.

 

Just FYI, your current script here is going to endlessly start a coroutine every frame.
You generally shouldn't start a coroutine inside of

Update

without some condition to track if it's currently running or not.

Other than that, use the

DateType

type mentioned above.

 

Thanks.

That seemed to fix the glitchy flickering of the numbers when the day would increase by 1 once I removed it from Update()