Zugg Software :: View topic - Calculating the passage of days and weeks.

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

I am trying to set up a script which will keep track of when certain events occur and then let me know how much time has passed since that event. The problem is that it needs to keep track of things which happened days and weeks and even months previously.

The %time() function lets me easily record when something happens, by the time and date, then store that in a variable, but if there is a simple way to calculate the difference between two such time/dates, and output that difference in a comprehensible format, I don't know it!

I hoped one of you fine people might.

I would like to be able to see, at a glance, for example, that event x occurred 6 days, 8 hours 23 minutes and 15 seconds ago.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

You would need to use a database, doesn't sound simple, maybe learning sql would help

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:08 am

There's no simple way to do it, it's just raw math. You have a couple options though.

You can use #MSS to use a JavaScript function from the web, like this one for example

Similarly you can try converting the code from this CMUD post to work in zMUD.