Tracking playing time

[Akasu]

I was wondering if there is a smart way to track the time someone has played a certain custom story and display it when the player interacts with, for example, a clock entity in game.

The tracking could probably happen like this:

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void OnStart()
{
AddGlobalVarInt("time", 0);
AddTimer("timer", 60, "tracker");
}

void tracker (string& asName)
{
SetGlobalVarInt("time", GetGlobalVarInt("time")+1; // don't know if it works like this. gotta test
AddTimer("timer", 60, "tracker");
}

This would track the game time every minute but the problem is how to display it... One way to do this is trough a debug message:

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AddDebugMessage("Time played: "+GetGlobalVarInt("time"), false);

but the player would need to have debug mode on for it to show.

If it was done trough SetMessage I'd need to make lots of entries in the lang file which would be pretty time consuming.
So what would be the smartest way to do this?