How to get the days since a place was created?

[DestDeHat (dest)]

How do i get the days since a place was created? I want the my game to display it’s age (in days) in a certain spot of the map, but i don’t know how to do so.

[FrozenInferno_Dev]

To get the days since a place was created, you’ll need to get the information from the place first using MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo().

local ms = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
local id = 25415 -- change this to your liking
local information = ms:GetProductInfo(id)

From there, MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo() returns a Created property, which is when the place was created. Note that this property, returns an ISO date, for example:

print(information.Created) -- prints "2008-01-26T01:36:49.157Z" (for id 25415)

You can use the Created property and convert it to a timestamp with DateTime.fromIsoDate(), after which you can use the UnixTimestamp property:

local timestamp = DateTime.fromIsoDate(information.Created).UnixTimestamp
print(timestamp) -- prints 1201311409 (for id 25415)

Now, you can compare the timestamp from there to now with os.difftime() and os.time(). You can also use math.floor if the decimals aren’t necessary. Afterwards, you can get the amount of days since the place was created:

local difference = os.difftime(os.time(), timestamp)
local days = math.floor(difference / 86400)
print(days .. " days ago")