Comments on Profile Post by VirtualJunky

:D Ooooo ! Sneaky Sneaky BearryyBearrr

Strangly enough, Bukkit/Spigot compare time to January 1, 1970, and also display that time in milliseconds.

Basically what this does for anyone interested, is gets the difference between the time you join and that date, and the time between the current time and that date, gets the difference between those values, and then converts it to days/hours.

The bonus to using it though, is that it always works. If you store time from the time the player joins, you can only compare current time to that time. In other words you can only track from the time you add the code to the server.

With this though, it compares it to the time stamp of the file created when you first join a server. So it is 100% accurate to the very day you actually joined.

Anyway, that's how bored I am. How is everyone else doing? O.O

Meh, got 2 more finals today.. and meanwhile Im auctioning off DC's of random stuff I have.

It's even easier with the EMC system ;)

Yeah but as I said in my comment, that only displays time based on when it was added, not when the player actually joined. I have seen many say they have been a member longer then what it shows, simply because of that. :)

I think /p uses a different system because its based on when /p was added, and not the current player data records.

That is what I was saying. >_>
The code I linked would show when people actually joined.

Ah, thought you meant the other way :P

EMC uses a database store so its consistent across all servers. Using that method would report different times on different servers. Though, I could always compare SMP1's getFirstPlayed to the database and if its older than DB, update DB to the older value, and that would correct people who joined before /p was added

That'd be cool :D

and note, the date is only off for people who joined in like the first few months of EMC starting, so like 98% of members have the correct age.