AlliedModders - [Solved] Time Format

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Hello

I'm using get_time_length() to display a time remaining hud message.

Code:

new hud[125]
get_time_length(iPlayers[i], g_iRoundTime, timeunit_seconds, hud, charsmax(hud));

But it gets formated like this:
https://i.imgur.com/YogpW0w.png

Is there anyway to use the HH:MM:SS format?

EDIT: Fixed it by borrowing the code from another plugin.

Code:

new hud[125]
new m = g_iRoundTime/60
new h = m/60
new s = g_iRoundTime-m*60
m = m-h*60
if(h)
    formatex(hud,charsmax(hud),"%d:%02d:%02d",h,m,s)
else
    formatex(hud,charsmax(hud),"%d:%02d",m,s)

Try format_time() from amxmodx.inc.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fysiks (Post 2650143)

Try format_time() from amxmodx.inc.

Hello.

Sadly, format_time() accepts a unix timestamp as a parameter, while I'm using seconds remaning in g_iRoundTime.

g_iRoundTime += g_Current_timestamp.......

Quote:

Originally Posted by Natsheh (Post 2650259)

g_iRoundTime += g_Current_timestamp.......

No, that won't work in this case.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gabe Iggy (Post 2650257)

Hello.

Sadly, format_time() accepts a unix timestamp as a parameter, while I'm using seconds remaning in g_iRoundTime.

The idea was that you would format only the time (and not the date) and I assumed that your values wouldn't ever exceed 24 hours. In that case, it should work just fine. However, I just tested it and I realized that it gets the time/date from your PC which will take into account the timezone. If it used GMT always, it would work just fine.

Now, if you subtract the timezone offset, it works the way I was suggesting. However, subtracting the timezone offset will only work if you are west of the GMT. If you are east of the GMT you'd need to also add 24 hours.

The only other obstacle is accounting for daylights savings which actually shifts your timezone offset.

So, this works for me:

PHP Code:


		
			
public cmdTest()
{
    new szArg[100], iArg
    read_args(szArg, charsmax(szArg))
    remove_quotes(szArg)
    iArg = str_to_num(szArg)
    
    new iGMTOffset_h = -6 // GMT-06:00
    
    new szTime[100]
    format_time(szTime, charsmax(szTime), "%H:%M:%S", iArg - 3600*iGMTOffset_h)
    server_print(szTime)

}

However, it's going to be better to write a new function to do this:

PHP Code:


		
			
public relative_time_string(szTimeString[], len, iSeconds)
{
    formatex(szTimeString, len, "%02d:%02d:%02d", iSeconds / 3600, (iSeconds % 3600) / 60, iSeconds % 60)
}