How can I express AccountAge in years?

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#1

Hi, I would like to know how to express a player’s account age in years. I also looked on the developer hub but found nothing about it. I appreciate any help.

#2

divide it by 365‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

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#3

then math.round that val so its not like 50 digits

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#4

What form is the data you currently have?

If you’re getting the account age via ROBLOX’s web API, simply:

  • years = currentYear - yearUserJoined
#6

localplayer.AccountAge
(character limit)

#7 
game:GetService('Players').PlayerAdded:Connect(function(playerJoined)
	local years = math.floor(playerJoined.AccountAge/365)
end)
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#9

I know you’ve since deleted your comment, but I’m posting this to provide a resource to anybody who might need it whilst stumbling across OP’s post.

In a use case where AccountAge is 0 years, but a value not equal to 0 is required, you could implement something similar to the following to return the first significant figure of account age:

-- Assuming that the days -> year conversion returns this
local num = tostring(0.01234)

-- Iterates the length of the string of account age in years
for i = 1, #num do
	
	-- Checks the current substring of position i and determines whether
	-- it is a value not equal to 0
	if num:sub(i, i) ~= "0" and num:sub(i, i) ~= "." then
		
		-- If a number not equal to 0 is found, formats the string to
		-- round to the value of (i - 2)
		-- Compensates for the first two characters [0 and .] respectively
		num = string.format("%." .. tostring(i - 2) .. "f", num)
		
		-- Terminates the loop
		break
	end
end

print(num)
#10

that’s a pretty good implementation, better than my own attempt

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