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How can I parse a date in text form in Roblox Lua?
I have a datestring like this: "12/12/2016 7:23:17 PM"
How can I convert it to something useful without rewriting a bunch of date logic?
All I actually care about is getting the rough number of seconds of time from that date until now.
I guess I can just hack it, ignoring leap years, etc, but I was hoping there would be something better.
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Probably is some way, which I dont know. I suggest trying to find an online API which might do it? User#13152 0 — 7y
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function date2ostime(dateStr)
--12/12/2016 7:23:17 PM
local res = {}
for mm in dateStr:gmatch("(%d+)") do
table.insert(res,mm)
print(mm)
end
return os.time{year=res[3], month=res[1], day=res[2], hour=res[4], min=res[5], sec=res[6]}
end