Os.date

Feature Requests Engine Features
1

I’m trying to produce a plugin that tracks how many hours you have worked on a project and when you worked them. Every single source for converting a tick() into the necessary information uses os.date, which is conveniently not allowed in roblox. If there is a reason why os.date is not allowed in roblox, it would be nice to know, otherwise, please put this in.

2

Use this to calculate the date. It’s what I’ve always done.

function time(s)
	local s=type(s)=='number' and s or os.time()
	local fy,dim=math.floor(s/126230400),{31,0,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31}
	local y,s,m,d,h,mm=fy*4,s-(126230400*fy)
	for i=1,4 do local sy=i==2 and 31622400 or 31536000
		if s<(sy) then break
		else y=y+1 s=s-(sy)
	end end
	for i=1,12 do local sm=(i==2 and ((y%4)==0 and 29 or 28) or dim[i])*86400
		if s<(sm) then m=i break
		else s=s-(sm)
	end end
	local d=math.floor(s/86400) s=s-(d*86400)
	local h=math.floor(s/3600) s=s-(h*3600)
	local mm=math.floor(s/60) s=s-(mm*60)
	return {
		Year=1970+y,
		Month=m,
		Day=d+1,
		Hour=h,
		Minute=mm,
		Second=s,
	}
end
3

[quote] Use this to calculate the date. It’s what I’ve always done.
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I think his point is that he doesn’t feel like putting in 24 lines of code when we really only need the 9 characters that are os.date().

4

What irritates me most is that this has been suggested multiple times:

PLEASE can we have this enabled? It would be so useful.

5

Interns, please?