[jaxoR]

Hi, when I need use dates in sourcemod, I don't see any tutorial or guide for use it. So, I decided make a simple guide for working with dates.

It's very simple, do you need this function:

PHP Code:

FormatTime(char[] buffer, int maxlength, const char[] format, int stamp) 


Where:

• char[] buffer
  • Destination string buffer.

• int maxlength
  • Maximum length of output string buffer.

• const char[] format
  • Formatting rules (passing NULL_STRING will use the rules defined in sm_datetime_format).

• int stamp
  • Optional time stamp.

(You can see all information in the API: https://sm.alliedmods.net/new-api/sourcemod/FormatTime

So, using this link: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/strftime/ we can obtain all the values that we want.

Example:

PHP Code:

int day, month, year;

new String:sday[10];
new String:smonth[10];
new String:syear[10];

FormatTime(sday, sizeof(sday), "%d"); // Obtain day
FormatTime(smonth, sizeof(smonth), "%m"); // Obtain month
FormatTime(syear, sizeof(syear), "%Y"); // Obtain year

day = StringToInt(sday);
month = StringToInt(smonth);
year = StringToInt(syear); 


And with this, we can do all that we want (Compare dates, add days, etc.).

Regards

[Powerlord]

GetTime returns the number of seconds since 1970 January 1 00:00:00 UTC. Might be easier to do math on that instead.

[sdz]

Nice tutorial. I was going to write a guide eventually on using time/dates and using them in reference to the future/past but I can see you did a good 30% of that.

[jaxoR]

Originally Posted by EasSidezz Nice tutorial. I was going to write a guide eventually on using time/dates and using them in reference to the future/past but I can see you did a good 30% of that.

[Addicted.]

Originally Posted by jaxoR