llGetTimestamp()

I've asked for this a few times, and going to keep asking till it's finally in. This would be an incredibly simple function to add to LSL.

Gimme a freaking REAL time stamp based on the standard of Jan 1st, 1970 00:00:00 GMT (the server's clock naturally, I believe you can access that without having to think too hard and then pass it along to us tinkerers, via llGetTimestamp();)

thanks
Boso

This would be nice, I endorse this idea/feature.

You can have your script send itself an email. The returned date in the email event will be a timestamp from the moment the mail was sent

LOL Ez... it would take a while though

if your interested i have made a function for converting the date to an integer...

integer dateToInteger(string a)
{
    list b=llParseString2List(a, ["-"], []);
    integer year =(integer)llList2String(b,0)-1970;
    integer month=(integer)llList2String(b,1) - 1;

    return
        llCeil( 365.25 * year - 0.5)
        + (integer)llList2String(b,2)
        + 31 * month
        - ( month - ( month > 7 ) ) / 2
        - ( month > 1 )
        - ( month > 1 && year % 4 != 2);
}

think that should work
haven't tested it since moding it for 1970

Heh, if we needed day-based timestamps, that would be fins Strife. But Im sure Boso is referring to timestamps by the second, and preferrably .1th of a second.

I WANT this

==Chris

Yes, time in seconds since Jan 1st 1970 at 00:00:00 GMT, or maybe it's 00:00:01.. anyway that's it. The standard. I care less what time it is on the server, in seconds, since midnight, etc. :P

Boso

I'd like to see this too. Or match the time zones on llGetWallclock() and llGetDate(), which would be close enough for me.

But I see no reason we can't have all of these things

...the standard 1/1/1970 0 o'clock GMT. As the current functions basically already are anyway -- we just lack the real timestamp and are left with gimpness.

integer dateToSeconds(string timestamp)
{
    list date      =llParseString2List(timestamp, ["-"], []);
    integer year   =(integer)llList2String(date,0) - 1970;
    integer month  =(integer)llList2String(date,1) - 1;
    integer hour   =(integer)llGetSubString(timestamp, 11, 12);
    integer minute =(integer)llGetSubString(timestamp, 14, 15);    
    integer second =(integer)llGetSubString(timestamp, 17, 18);
    integer days   = 
        llCeil( 365.25 * year - 0.5)
        + (integer)llList2String(date,2)
        + 31 * month
        - ( month - ( month > 7 ) ) / 2
        - ( month > 1 )
        - ( month > 1 && year % 4 != 2);            
    second += minute * 60;
    second += hour   * 3600;
    second += days   * 86400;
    return llAbs(second);
    
}

Does that work? Just a slight change on the one above.

I think we got a better timestamp function with 1.5 (or was it 1.4?)

This is a relatively old thread, but hopefully Bos will chime in with whether the new function does what he needs.

I needed to use this for something, and I couldn't find any other function, so I searched the wiki and the forums and found this.

There's llGetTime() but that's the time since the script started running and resets when you attach/detach something.

llGetGMTclock() and llGetWallclock() are both time's since midnight, just in different zones.

The other workaround is to have your script send itself an email. The email event has a unix timestamp in there, but that's a really bad way to handle this. If there is an easier function I must be missing it.

It seems the change was that llGetTimestamp() was updated. Perhaps you weren't looking there since it seemed to be borked.

Of course, it doesn't seem to be exactly what Bos wanted, which was probably "number of secs since midnight 1/1/70", but it's at least got a date and a time and its standardized.

Right, and llGetTimestamp is what this function parses, and returns in seconds. Unless there's an error with it.

Maybe in 1.6.4?

Guess it would have to be called float llGetUnixTimestamp() now