How to find updated date for a game

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#1

I want to find the game updated date via script.

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I’ve looked on the developer hub and devforum and haven’t found an good method to do this.

Any help would be apricated.

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#2

Have you looked at this?

local PlaceIDToFind = 00000000000000000000
local MarketService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

local PlaceInfo = MarketService:GetProductInfo(PlaceIDToFind)
print(PlaceInfo.Updated)
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#3

Thanks that works. I saw that but thought it wouldn’t work with games. What would be the best way to parse that information?

#4

From what I understand on the Dev API, the Updated value is a timestamp type so you may need to convert it into a string if you want to get the exact date:

There’s also a code example on here that does show you how to change timestamps to strings I believe (In os.date format string)

#5

Mine comes out as this:
2021-03-28T04:41:08.893Z

#6

Wait it’s an iso8601 format

#7

Hm, try formatting it as a Dictionary? That could work a bit easier I believe:

local TimeStamp = NumberHere
local DateStats = os.date("*t", TimeStamp)

print(DateStats)
#8

Decided to do it with basic string formatting.

Final script:

local label = script.Parent
local marketService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
local updatedDate = marketService:GetProductInfo(game.PlaceId).Updated

label.Text = "v" .. string.gsub(string.split(updatedDate, "T")[1], "-", ".")

Output: v2021.04.03

I was using this to show the version of my game instead of game.PlaceVersion.

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#9

This is quite an old post but another good way to do this is by using the DateTime class like so

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#10

Yeah I ended up doing this. It’s a much better solution.

#11

:smiley: tysm! Now I can add this to my game! ty very much!

#12

But can you convert it to est? I was wondering

#13

or is it already converted?.. Im not sure