Getting a player's local time

[Kristi]

Originally Posted by Crow

Doesn't need to be done serverside, at least not if it doesn't have to be exact. You could do it using timevar, which is synced between client and server. Only increments by 1 every 5 seconds, but hey, that should be enough ;D

only for time and not date, since you don't have a reference point of what day that var is counting from

And yes, I bumped this, it seemed like a good point to make

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Kristi

only for time and not date, since you don't have a reference point of what day that var is counting from

And yes, I bumped this, it seemed like a good point to make

Originally Posted by wiki.graal.net

timevar integer (read only) A timer which is increased each 5 seconds and is snychronized between server and clients; The timer started exactly on 2001-02-01 at 18:33:34 Paris time (opening of Graal2001); on serverside the unixtime (timevar2) is around 981048814 + timevar*5

I dunno, that looks like a pretty precise reference point to me.

[Kristi]

Originally Posted by Crow

I dunno, that looks like a pretty precise reference point to me.

Go figure, cool I guess

I should go update the time script to reflect that (then it would work clientside)