How to change player.AccountAge to months and years?

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#1

Hello, I want to make a feature like Flex Account Age, and I want to get players account age. I have used player.AccountAge and got the amount of days. How can I change the string to how many months and years it was?

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#2

Well, since the months have different day amounts, you may not get an exact number, but for a general month count, I would do local month = day/30. And to get years, local years = month/12.

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#3

I was thinking of trying it that way too, but was just seeing if there was other ways too.

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#4

Is there a way to even the numbers? They come out as decimal.

#5

and also how would I get the days left over? Sorry if im asking to many questions.

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#6

To not make the numbers a decimal, use math.floor

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#7

An exact formula for getting the months and years is

Day / 30,417 = Months
Day / 365 = Years

#8

Lol forgot its weeks, sorry Ill fix that

#9

How would I add months? Add the weeks to it?

#10

What do you mean? Getting the months?

Day / 30,417 = Months
Day / 7 = Weeks

#11

Okay so I got months by dividing weeks by 4 which I might has done wrong but 8 months sound right.

#12

Nothing is working all dates are wrong, still needing help.

#13

Use the os library, specifically os.date() to get their join date, then calculate their age on months and years based on that.

print(os.date("%m %Y", 4209999900)) – this returns 05 2103
http://lua-users.org/wiki/OsLibraryTutorial

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#14

Ok mine prints out 07 1985 but how would this turn into years, months, days?

#15

You can use DateTime’s which make it easy to do things in relation to time. Take this for example

local DT = DateTime.fromUnixTimestamp(os.time() - 86400 * player.AccountAge) --os.time() returns the seconds since the UNIX epoch and there's 86400 seconds in a day
local Month = tonumber(DT:FormatUniversalTime("MM", "en-us"))
local Year = tonumber(DT:FormatUniversalTime("YYYY", "en-us"))
print("Month: " .. Month .. " Year: " .. Year)

The first line gets the time the player’s account was created in a UnixTimestamp
The second and third lines then get the month and year the account was created.

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#16

But I want to get how long ago it was created, instead of when.

#17

We don’t have to change much to achieve that. Instead of getting the difference we instead get the difference from the UNIX epoch

local DT = DateTime.fromUnixTimestamp(86400 * players.AccountAge)
local Days = tonumber(DT:FormatUniversalTime("DD", "en-us"))
local Months = tonumber(DT:FormatUniversalTime("MM", "en-us"))
local Years = tonumber(DT:FormatUniversalTime("YYYY", "en-us")) - 1970 -- 1970 is the unix epoch Year
print("Days: " .. Days .. " Months: " .. Months .. " Years: " .. Years)
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#18

Thanks for your help it works. Thank you again.

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#19

What if the month has 31 days or 28/29?