When I look at world.realtime, it says "2862452736"
What does that even mean? I don't understand how to use that.
I want to design a system that will purge savefiles that haven't been used in more than a week from the save directory.
I would know how to do this just fine, if I knew how to use world.realtime to check how long ago a week really was.
How do I do this? Thanks
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 Jan 25 2009, 2:39 pm
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Jan 25 2009, 2:41 pm
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Mizukouken Ketsu
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Wouldn't that the number of ticks out of 24 hours (600*60*24 ticks)?
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A simple click on the reference would solve such a question faster than any forum ever could ;)
realtime: This is the time (in 1/10 seconds) since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 2000 (also known as the BYOND era). Because this is a large number, BYOND's number system isn't capable of enough precision to deliver the exact number of 1/10 second ticks. It usually rounds off to the nearest several seconds. For more accurate readings use world.timeofday. It would even link you to a proc that allows for a more "human readable" form of this value...time2text, which would have converted the time you supplied to: Sat Oct 21 14:19:24 2006 | |
But if you were to read the number how it stands, what would it say?
2862452736 I can't see any time in that whatsoever to be honest. | |
It would say 286245273,6 seconds after 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 2000.
Similar to how you would say half past five, meaning 30 minutes after five o'clock of {insert day}, just that it's seconds and a well, a bit further into the past, than "this day". | |
But if you were to read the number how it stands, what >would it say? Thanks. That's TOTALLY what I asked... >_> I think the premise here is that you cannot, without some assistance or savant-like mathematical ability, translate 2862452736 into a human-readable date. The number as it stands, if you were to read it, would say two-hundred eighty-six million, two-hundred fourty-five thousand, two-hundred seventy-three point six seconds past midnight on January 1st, 2000. If you were to actually say that, you'd get some pretty funny looks. | |
There are calculators you know, unless that's what you meant by assistance.
Anyways, 2862452736 1/10's of a second = 79512,576 hours = 3313,024 days. | |