Time control

[Li An]

Hi,
In a Java Swarm modeling, suppose I have a simulation of 15 years. If I 
want to report something (say, age of a person, person[1]) at a certain 
year (year j), should I use Globals.env.getCurrentTime() to represent that 
time?
For instance, in regular Java code, it should look like this:
...
for (int j=0;j<endTime;j++) {
...
d=(Person)personList.get(1);//want to take out the second person in the list
System.out.println("At year "+(j+1)+"person 1's age is "+d.getAge());
...
}
Should we use Globals.env.getCurrentTime() to replace j in above print 
command? In a Swarm /Java code for the same job, do we not usually use the 
for loop to control time? Instead, we let the schedule to control the time 
by using something like "modelSchedule.at$createAction(0,modelActions)"?
Thanks,
Li

Li An
Systems Modeling Lab
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
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