Method: gettime

Module: es
Class: (no class)
EventScripts version: 2.0

Method Overview

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Description

(Deprecated) Gets the current server time as the number of seconds since the epoch (Jan 1 1970). This is the Python equivalent of: http://www.eventscripts.com/pages/es_gettime

Arguments

• returnvar - Variable in which to store the time

Examples

import es
 
myvar = es.ServerVar('myvar')
es.gettime('myvar')
es.msg('Time: %s' % myvar)

Notes

• It is not recommended to use this function. Instead use the python time library (http://docs.python.org/library/time.html) and the time.time() function.

See Also

• es.gettimestamp
• Forum thread describing reasons not to use this function: http://forums.eventscripts.com/viewtopic.php?p=285902
• Forum search for Es.gettime