[yusufali]

I was wondering what is the best way to keep track of the amount of time a client has played of the particular round in question (not the total time on the server)

So far what i have is a time that repeats and in which some variable is incremented by the repeat time in seconds. If the client has disconnected, it stops the timer.

I was wondering if there was a better way to do so?

[friagram]

Store time as a unix timestamp and then subtract from the timestamp again when you want to aggregate.

[yusufali]

ah yes, much smarter idea, thank you

[yusufali]

so how would somebody subtract the unix time stamps to get the time in seconds

new time1 = GetTime();
new time2 = GetTime(); // called at some later time during the program
         
 new time3 = time2 - time1; //gives difference between time2 and time1 in???

would that work, what unit of time would time3 be? minutes/hours/seconds ?

[floube]

Originally Posted by yusufali so how would somebody subtract the unix time stamps to get the time in seconds new time1 = GetTime(); new time2 = GetTime(); // called at some later time during the program new time3 = time2 - time1; //gives difference between time2 and time1 in??? would that work, what unit of time would time3 be? minutes/hours/seconds ?

GetTime()
Return: 32bit timestamp (number of seconds since unix epoch).


Obviously seconds.

[yusufali]

Originally Posted by floube GetTime() Return: 32bit timestamp (number of seconds since unix epoch). Obviously seconds.

so simply subtracting them should work?

[Impact123]

Yup.

[friagram]

For more precision You can use getgametime, but i would suggest against it as it stops when the server is hibernating. Getenginetime is better. However, you have to convert this or compare it, it does not persist like a timestamp and is onky valid from the point the server starts (or the map, whatever)