How do I get the age of a place from its ID?

[bubbybumble]

My project:
I am trying to make a place where users can show off other games by typing in the place ID and creating a portal there. So far I fetch the place information such as the icon and title using MarketPlaceService.

The problem:
I want to make the game less prone to trolls by requiring the game to be a certain age. However, the closest thing to this I can find is AssetInfo.Created, which gives a timestamp in an odd format (the example given on the page for GetProductInfo is “2018-08-01T17:55:11.98Z”)
Is there a way to manipulate this timestamp to get the age of the place, or is there something else I am missing?

Other ideas:
I already check the account age of a player joining. One of my ideas was to check the account age of the creator of the place, however I cannot find a way to get the player’s age from their ID alone. If I could, this would be a good alternative.

[Operatik]

That is ISO 8601 time format, you have to convert it or use string manipulation to read it.

How would I go about converting ISO8601 into a time and date?

I found a script here that may be helpful. It looks like it takes the full ISO8601 timestamp and converts it into Unix time (seconds since 1/1/1970). This is the same format that os.time() returns. From here, you can use os.date() to format it.

[anon24371531]

As an addition to the post above, an example with string manipulation would be something like this. You could pass the GetProductInfo value into the variable ‘date’ and format the timestamp using :match() like so:

local date = '2018-08-01T17:55:11.98Z'

local year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds = date:match('^(%d%d%d%d)-(%d%d)-(%d%d)T(%d%d):(%d%d):(%d%d).(%d%d)Z$')
print(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)

You can use :gsub() or :match().

[bubbybumble]

This is exactly what I was looking for, and it now works. Thanks!