How does DateTime.UnixTimestampMillis work?

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#1

Hello! I am pretty confused on the wiki page for DateTime. There is a property of date time called DateTime.UnixTimestampMillis, which to my understanding returns the amount of milliseconds that passed before some date in the 1400’s. If I try to print this, it returns nil, and the wiki page doesn’t show how you would use it, only what the property is. The only thing that may make sense is using this with DateTime.fromUnixTimestampMillis, but how would I do that? Thanks :slight_smile:

#2

DateTime.now().UnixTimestampMillis

#3

Oh I feel like an idiot now, thank you for this :smiley:

#4

Hey one more question, when trying to divide to get the minutes, the script outputs ServerScriptService.CommandHandler:48: attempt to perform arithmetic (sub) on number and Instance, do you know how to fix this? I also used tonumber()

Edit: Script incase you need it:

local chosenPlayer = game.Players:FindFirstChild(split[2])
			if chosenPlayer then
				print(chosenPlayer.UserId)
				
				local playerTime = chosenPlayer.ServerTime
				local nowTime = DateTime.now().UnixTimestampMillis
				
				print(string.format("%d:%.02d:%.03d", tonumber(nowTime)/3600000 - playerTime.Value/3600000, tonumber(nowTime)/60000 - playerTime.Value/60000, tonumber(nowTime) - playerTime))

chosen player is found via :FindFirstChild(), and the value is also DateTime,now().UnixTimestampMillis, and that saves the milliseconds number!

#5

I think the issue may be here, did you forget to put .Value after playerTime?

#6

Oh didn’t notice that lmao, thank you for this :slight_smile:

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