If you don’t understand the title, here’s a more detailed explanation.
Basically, I created my own ban system with ProfileService and it works well. I made ban lengths and things like that.
The problem is, I want the player to know WHEN they will be unbanned. Not just them staring at a “You’re banned” screen, thinking they have been permabanned.
The way I’m trying to do it is by taking the current time when they were banned and adding the ban length (in seconds) onto it. local formattedTime = DateTime.now():FormatLocalTime("LLLL","en-us")
For example:
Let’s say a player gets banned on December 19th, at 4:30 PM. Their ban will be… 3 days long. This equals to 259200 seconds. I want to add these seconds onto December 19th, 4:30 PM and somehow end up with December 22nd, 4:30 PM.
Of course this is possible, one of the most easy methods would be to make use of the Unix timestamps which represent the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 from the DateTime object.
Here’s an example to do so:
local function getUnbanTime(banDurationInSeconds)
-- Get the current time as a Unix timestamp
local now = DateTime.now().UnixTimestamp
-- Add the ban duration to the current time
local unbanTimestamp = now + banDurationInSeconds
-- Convert the Unix timestamp back to a DateTime
local unbanTime = DateTime.fromUnixTimestampMillis(unbanTimestamp * 1000)
-- Format the unban time to a readable format
local formattedUnbanTime = unbanTime:FormatLocalTime("LLLL", "en-us")
return formattedUnbanTime
end
local banLengthSeconds = 259200
local formattedUnbanTime = getUnbanTime(banLengthSeconds)
print("You will be unbanned on: " .. formattedUnbanTime)