[edon1337]

Originally Posted by KliPPy Instead of saying "I don't get how modulus operator works" you should learn it, it's a basic concept that's taught in elementary school when you are like 11 or so (remember division remainders?). Same goes for your other topic where you reject the answer because you don't understand Unix timestamps. Learn the right way to do things, operations on time/time spans should only be done in Unix timestamps.

Well, it's embarrassing to say but we never used it in elementary, that's why I have no clue what it does, I never even knew it existed until few months back. So basically it returns the division remainder of X and Y? 7 % 3 the remainder being 1? It's not that I suck at maths, it's that I've never used it before.

Furthermore, I never used Unix, that's why I try to avoid it, and why would one use Unix when you can do that already with AMXX? Such as here.

[klippy]

Yes, it's that. You have done long division in elementary school, and long division occasionally had you left with a remainder. That's what the modulus operator returns.

You would use Unix time because it's a lot more performant than handling strings, there's less room for error and you take out the "human" aspect of it (there are many different formats for date and time). The Unix time is basically the number of seconds passed since 1.1.1970.

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by edon1337 Well, it's embarrassing to say but we never used it in elementary

They don't typically teach the programming language term "modulus" in elementary (maybe they do a little nowadays) but they teach division.

Originally Posted by edon1337 Furthermore, I never used Unix, that's why I try to avoid it, and why would one use Unix when you can do that already with AMXX?

The Unix timestamp is a simple concept and isn't only available in Unix. The concept is used just about everywhere. Like Klippy said, it's simply a number of seconds since a specific, known, common date which happens to be January 1st 1970.

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by fysiks The Unix timestamp is a simple concept and isn't only available in Unix. The concept is used just about everywhere. Like Klippy said, it's simply a number of seconds since a specific, known, common date which happens to be January 1st 1970.

I get how it works now, thanks for your answers!