How to get exact milliseconds since epoch

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#1

How would I get the exact amount of milliseconds passed since epoch? Couldn’t really find any other post about this which would help, so I came here.

#2

tick() has what you need. it is down to the mil sec

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#3

Doesn’t tick() also use the amount of seconds passed since epoch?

#4

What specifically do you need this for? There could be an easier way to solve your problem.

#5

Don’t think there are any functions that’ll give you the exact millisecond since the epoch.
Not sure why you would need the exact millisecond but I guess you could just sync a loop to tick() and have it update every millisecond

#6

pretty sure tick() returns milliseconds too but I find it odd that you need ms to do something

#7

Trying to get the amount of milliseconds that has passed since a PLAYER has fired a remote.

#8

here:

local time = tick() -- start timer

wait(5) -- example delay

local finishTime = tick() -- end timer

print(1000*(finishTime - time)) -- get timer time
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#9

1000 times to turn seconds into milliseconds.

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#10

yes…just not explicitly. Just multiply the seconds by 1000 to convert it into milliseconds. It is simple unit conversion.

#11 
local ms = tonumber(tostring(DateTime.now()))

Edit: Use this instead

local ms = DateTime.now().UnixTimestampMillis
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