GetDiffBetweenTimeStamps example

[Argusus]

is there a good example of using GetDiffBetweenTimeStamps ? I would like see if the difference between today and another day is greater than 30 days.

[rkuhnjr]

It returns the int64 of seconds between the two dates you pass in
You would just need to check that with math to see if it is > 30 days

You will probably have a hard time figuring out the future days time stamp than anything else. It is the standard unix epoch time and there are no functions in the API that let you pass in date parameters and get back the Time stamp, at least none that I saw, Hell I couldn't even find a consistent way to get the users local time stamp, GetTimeStamp() is UTC, but the formatters all return it in the users TZ so the conversion happens in there somewhere.

local timeDifInSecs = GetDiffBetweenTimeStamps(futureDate, GetTimeStamp())
if (timeDifInSecs > 30*86400) then 
  -- Its longer than 30 days
else
 -- its not longer
end

[Argusus]

Originally Posted by rkuhnjr It returns the int64 of seconds between the two dates you pass in You would just need to check that with math to see if it is > 30 days You will probably have a hard time figuring out the future days time stamp than anything else. It is the standard unix epoch time and there are no functions in the API that let you pass in date parameters and get back the Time stamp, at least none that I saw, Hell I couldn't even find a consistent way to get the users local time stamp, GetTimeStamp() is UTC, but the formatters all return it in the users TZ so the conversion happens in there somewhere. local timeDifInSecs = GetDiffBetweenTimeStamps(futureDate, GetTimeStamp()) if (timeDifInSecs > 30*86400) then   -- Its longer than 30 days else  -- its not longer end

great, thanks.

[Baertram]

To get the difference between 2 different times (startTime and endTime) in milliseconds you could use this code:

--Set start point somewhere in your code
    local startTime = GetGameTimeMilliseconds()
 
    --Set end point somwhere in your code
    local endTime   = GetGameTimeMilliseconds()
 
    --Difference in milliseconds?
    local differenceInMS = endTime - startTime
    if differenceInMs > 0 then
        --Difference in seconds
        local differenceInS  = differenceInMS / 1000
        --Difference in minutes
        local differenceInMin  = differenceInS / 60
        --Difference in hours
        local differenceInH  = differenceInMin / 60
        --Difference in days
        local differenceInDays  = differenceInH / 24
    end