Timestamp is easy to compare?

I am attempting to check in a script whether or not a particular time has passed. It seemed from the wiki that llGetTimestamp() is supposed to be easy to compare two times. I do not need to know the difference between them, only if one is "greater" than another. How is this easy? Is there a way beyond converting each one to hours and minutes (all the accuracy I need) and then comparing?

Also, it does not specifically say on the wiki (that I could find), but is the return of llGetTimestamp() based on GMT?

Thanks,
Baron Hauptmann

llGetUnixTime might be more suited to your purposes if you're looking to compare hours and minutes. Using that, you can get a difference as the number of seconds, and then do a few simple math operations to get hours and minutes.

As the wiki says, llGetTimeStamp "allows exact times and easy sorting, but is not as suited for comparing time as a libc like timestamp." When they say "easy sorting", they mean easy string sorting, that is, if you sort things of the format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mms.ff..fZ, it will be chronological.

Comparing timestamps is rather difficult-- but the wiki does have a code example of how to do it.

Perhaps LibraryTimeElapsed may be what you're looking for.

Okay. And as far as I know, the only way of "sorting" two items would be to put them in a list and then sort. I was just wondering if there were a way of "alphabetizing" two strings, ie, see which one *would* come first if put into a list.

So, the solution seems to me to either: convert hh:mm to seconds past midnight and compare to llGetWallclock *OR* put both items in a list, sort them, and compare one of them with the first element to see if it is indeed first. Any idea which one is less resource-intensive?

Baron

Sorting would be faster, but I wouldn't recommend using llGetTimeStamp if all you care about is time difference.

Actually, I don't care about the time difference. I just want to know if a time has been passed. Basically, I want to read a time from a notecard such as 14:45 and see if SL time is later than that. I thought that if I could compare text strings using the appropriate part of llGetTimestamp, that would be the easiest. Am I better off converting 14:45 to seconds past midnight and seeing if that is larger than llGetWallclock, then?

Sorry if I'm being thick-headed,
Baron