I know how to make a twitter code GUI and how to make it detect if they already used it or not, but I want to know how many games make it so it expires at an exact date. Expiring isn't hard, but I don't know they make the code expire without having to shutdown all servers with editing the script. How do they make them expire without having to shutdown after updating?
I'm not asking for code, but at least some small examples or some links could help me out. Thanks.
Using mathematical calculations, you can "expire" a code at a certain date by using the following. Simply adapt the code (I did an example of how to adapt it below) and go from there.
-- Calculating time function CurrentDate(z) local z = math.floor(z / 86400) + 719468 local era = math.floor(z / 146097) local doe = math.floor(z - era * 146097) local yoe = math.floor((doe - doe / 1460 + doe / 36524 - doe / 146096) / 365) local y = math.floor(yoe + era * 400) local doy = doe - math.floor((365 * yoe + yoe / 4 - yoe / 100)) local mp = math.floor((5 * doy + 2) / 153) local d = math.ceil(doy - (153 * mp + 2) / 5 + 1) local m = math.floor(mp + (mp < 10 and 3 or -9)) return y + (m <= 2 and 1 or 0), m, d end function CurrentTime(hoursOffset) local unixTime = math.floor(os.time()) - (60*60*(hoursOffset or 0)) local hours = math.floor(unixTime / 3600 % 12) local minutes = math.floor(unixTime / 60 % 60) local seconds = math.floor(unixTime % 60) local year, month, day = CurrentDate(unixTime) return { year = year, month = month, day = day, hours = hours, minutes = minutes < 10 and "0" .. minutes or minutes, seconds = seconds < 10 and "0" .. seconds or seconds } end local date = CurrentTime(-7) print(date.month .. "/" .. date.day .. "/" .. date.year .. " " .. date.hours .. ":" .. date.minutes .. ":" .. date.seconds) -- Codes twitterCode = "TwitterYay" if date.month == 3 and date.day == 5 and date.year == 2018 then twitterCode = "TwitterYay2" end
Hopefully you get how I adapted it from the original time script, if not, here is a value directory:
date.month = month number date.day = day of the month date.year = number of the year date.hours = hour of the day date.minutes = minute of the day date.seconds = second of the day