Player On Server Time

[Rob0]

I've seen this resource elsewhere. In the scoreboard it displays the players total time on server. If this is public can someone name what I'm looking for? Otherwise I need a pointer to write it. I need the lua/mta equivalent of $ctime. A number fixed to some pointless date based on seconds that i can use to calculate elapsed time.

[WhoAmI]

It's kinda easy mate, I can write it for you:

local columnName = "Online time"; 
  
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", resourceRoot, 
    function ( ) 
        exports.scoreboard:scoreboardAddColumn ( columnName ); 
         
        for _, player in pairs ( getElementsByType ( "player" ) ) do 
            setElementData ( player, "global:time", getTickCount ( ) ); 
        end 
    end 
); 
  
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerLogin", root, 
    function ( _, account ) 
        setElementData ( source, "global:time", getTickCount ( ) ); 
    end 
); 
  
addEventHandler ( "onPlayerQuit", root, 
    function ( ) 
        local time = getElementData ( source, "global:time" ); 
        local timeSpentOnServer = ( getTickCount ( ) - time ) / 1000; 
         
        local account = getPlayerAccount ( source ) 
        if ( account and not isGuestAccount ( account ) ) then 
            local data = getAccountData ( account, "global:time" ); 
            if ( data ) then 
                setAccountData ( account, "global:time", data + timeSpentOnServer ); 
            else 
                setAccountData ( account, "global:time", timeSpentOnServer ); 
            end 
        end 
    end 
); 
  
setTimer ( 
    function ( ) 
        for _, player in pairs ( getElementsByType ( "player" ) ) do 
            local startTime = getElementData ( player, "global:time" ); 
            if ( startTime ) then 
                local onlineTime = ( getTickCount - startTime ) / 1000; 
                setElementData ( player, columnName, string.format ( "%.2d:%.2d:%.2d", onlineTime / (60*60), onlineTime / 60 %6 0, onlineTime % 60 ) ); 
            end 
        end 
    end, 
500, 0 ); 

Should work. Not tested.

[Rob0]

could you give this line a second look please it is giving me trouble

  
setElementData ( player, columnName, string.format ( "%.2d:%.2d:%.2d", onlineTime / (60*60), onlineTime / 60 %6 0, onlineTime % 60 ) ); 

')' expected near '0'

[Walid]

remove the space between 6 and 0.

[Rob0]

and no equivalent to mirc's $ctime, a 1 second ticks based in the 1970's, useful for measuring large amounts of time.