Thanks for the advices for the alternative change of date, but nevertheless, I still feel that I should post this. Game still crashes when I try to change the date through the debug console
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FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: User Defined 6
for object obj_gamecontroller:
unable to convert string "" to number
at gml_Object_obj_gamecontroller_Other_16
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stack frame is
gml_Object_obj_gamecontroller_Other_16 (line -1)
called from - gml_Object_obj_gamecontroller_Draw_64 (line -1) - <unknown source line>