Calculating a time interval

[Silh]

I've been trying to figure out a method to determine a time interval between two events, which may be completely arbitrary, from 1 second, to potentilally weeks and months (years?). Something that would give me seconds since epoch would be ideal...

GetTime() would work only as long as your computer hasn't been rebooted (assuming WoWwiki is correct)... so that wouldn't be terribly practical.

os.time() or similar unfortunately isn't available.

Other than that, there's date(), and then convert that to seconds... which is somewhat ugly to do (nevermind that I really haven't found any good examples on how to do that).

At least there is SecondsToTime() luckily, to go the other way...

Anyone have any suggestions?

(Crossposted on the bliz forums as well...)

[ra1d3n]

DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Current Time: "..time())

whats the problem with that? "time" is a shortcut for the standard Lua library function "os.time".

Why is that not availiable? My LuaSlinger eats it no problem.

I get: "Current Time: 1158488464"
Thats 1158488464 Seconds (about 37+ Years) since "epoch" started.
I think this is exactly what you need, right?

[Silh]

... what the?

I remember trying to use time() and being disappointed that it didn't exist. Must've mistyped something or other, grr...

Probably just too much late night coding...

Thanks

[ra1d3n]

You are very welcome.