Mission Year : Is pre-1985 possible to set?

[anthropoid 1]

I am getting very close to an 'alpha' release of my first mission in what I hope will be a series of at least 3 (maybe more) missions based on the Soviet War in Afghanistan, the "Sheerai Veffudahr" (Faithful Lions) Platoon.

The mission design is somewhat inspired by Fuiba's PMC Versus campaign in that each mission will be for 5 players and have a distinctively 'non-BLUFOR' feel. First mission doesn't have a single Western weapon or soldier in it, and that will be the rule of thumb. Player side will be Takistani geurillas and main adversary will be Russians. Mission is designed with ACE, and tpwcas script, but doesn't require anything else.

Lots of AKMs, SKS, and that sort of older Russian weaponry.

My question is this: Is there a way for me to set the date of the mission to pre-1985? The GUI date selection in the editor only seems to go back to 1985.

[PlacidPaul 11]

Try editing .sqm

[nimrod_z 8]

placidpaul's sulution seems simple enough. there is also a "setDate" command http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setDate