Convert Playtime in ms to DD:HH:MM

['LinKin]

Hello,

I've been told MTA has a function to output the time format from ms (Obtained by getTickCount()).

However I canno't find it

How to turn those ms into Days:Hours:Mins format?

Also, how can I refresh that time each minute that the player is in the server? Maybe a timer in a client-side script?

Thanks.

[myonlake]

You can use the below code to format milliseconds to days, hours, minutes and seconds.

function formatMilliseconds(milliseconds) 
    local totalseconds = math.floor( milliseconds / 1000 ) 
    milliseconds = milliseconds % 1000 
    local seconds = totalseconds % 60 
    local minutes = math.floor( totalseconds / 60 ) 
    local hours = math.floor( minutes / 60 ) 
    local days = math.floor( hours / 24 ) 
    minutes = minutes % 60 
    hours = hours % 24 
    return string.format( "%03d:%02d:%02d:%02d:%03d", days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds )   
end 

You can use a timer so, that it goes through all the players at once, so that you won't have to define a timer on each player. Of course making it client-side would reduce any server-side lag, so I suppose you can use a timer. You can also use getTickCount do that, so it's up to you.

['LinKin]

Thanks,

I made this code by myself, it does the same thing (format ms)

addCommandHandler("msform",  
function () 
local days = 0 
local hours = 0 
local mins = 0 
local secs = 0 
local playTime = --getSQLDatum() 
  
while playTime >= 1000 do 
    if playTime >= 86400000 then 
        days = days + 1 
        playTime = playTime - 86400000 
    elseif playTime >= 3600000 then 
        hours = hours + 1 
        playTime = playTime - 3600000 
    elseif playTime >= 60000 then 
        mins = mins + 1 
        playTime = playTime - 60000 
    elseif playTime >= 1000 then 
        secs = secs + 1 
        playTime = playTime - 1000 
    end 
end 
outputChatBox(days.."D, "..hours.."H, "..mins.."M, "..secs.."S.") 
end) 

But I still don't really know how to refresh/update the time spent on server for a player each passed minute.

I'm thinking about making a function that calls itself; for example, client-side (For avoiding a table containing timers and some other stuff)

  
addEvent("onClientPlayerLogin", true) -- I will trigger this event with onPlayerLogin in the server-side file. 
function startTimer() 
  setTimer(checkTimePlayed, 60000, 1) 
  loginTime = getTickCount() 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientPlayerLogin", root, startTimer) 
  
function checkTimePlayed () 
  local currentTime = getTickCount() 
  local playTime = -- I will manage to get the playtime stored in the SQL db 
  local newTime = currentTime - loginTime 
  local finalTime = playTime + newTime 
  -- updateSQL (I will call a server function to update the SQL column with the new value (finalTime)) 
  -- This is what I mean; to set a timer that calls the same function each minute. 
  setTimer(checkTimePlayed, 60000, 1) 
end 
  

Would that work?

[Bonsai]

If that timer triggers that function every 1 minute, you could just add 1 minute, or 60000 ms to playtime instead of calculating anything.

['LinKin]

Yeah, just noticed that

So it would work (the function that calls itself). Thanks Bons you sucka)

[Bonsai]

Yeah, just noticed that

So it would work (the function that calls itself). Thanks Bons you sucka)