P56 - The scene hasn't ended, so you can't ask when it did

Most problems are detected when Inform translates the source text, but this is one of the exceptions, a "run-time problem" which emerges only during play.

Suppose there is a scene called Second Stage. Asking for the time when Second Stage ended or the time since Second Stage ended only makes sense if Second Stage has taken place. It's easy to test for this: for instance, if Second Stage has ended and the time since Second Stage ended is more than five minutes...