How to check if a date is greater than another date in roblox lua?
Hello everyone. So I'm making a ban gui, that uses date as a source to define how long players are banned for. I have a script for it, that supposedly checks if a date is higher than another. And if so the player gets kicked for being banned because the date is still not right. But it doesn't work. Here's the code:
Let's say DayD, MonthD and YearD are respectively 1 5 2019 as today's date
And let's say DayP, MonthP and YearP are respectively 16 8 2019 as the date the player is banned until
How would I correct this code to work properly?
01 | if YearD <= YearP then --Still banned |
02 | game.Players:FindFirstChild(tostring(PlayerWhoJoined)):Kick("You are banned.") |
03 | else --Year is good, check month! |
04 | if MonthD <= MonthP then --Still banned |
05 | game.Players:FindFirstChild(tostring(PlayerWhoJoined)):Kick("You are banned.") |
06 | else --Month is good, check day! |
07 | if DayD <= DayP then --Still banned |
08 | game.Players:FindFirstChild(tostring(PlayerWhoJoined)):Kick("You are banned.") |
09 | else--Player is good, and will get unbanned. |
10 | --Unban player code here |
**Thank you very much to those who try to help! **
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2 answers
os.date(str, time)
The os.date function returns a dictionary that has all the information of the date at given time. str can either be *t or !*t. The former will get the local timezone where the latter gets the UTC time. The last argument defaults to the current number that os.time returns.
Here's a list of the keys and values of the dictionary returned:
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| sec | Current seconds of the hour. |
| min | Current minute of the hour. |
| hour | Current hour of the day. |
| day | Current day of the month. |
| wday | Current weekday. (Monday, Tuesday, ect). |
| yday | How many days we are into the year. For example, as of February 9, 2019, we are 40 days into the year 2019. |
| month | Current month of the year. |
| year | Current year. |
| isdst | Boolean that is true if there is daylight savings time. False otherwise. |
In this example I will use !*t to get UTC time
01 | local info = os.date("!*t") |
02 |
03 | if info.year < yourYear then |
04 | -- # ... |
05 | end |
06 |
07 | if info.month < yourMonth then |
08 | -- # ... |
09 | end |
10 |
11 | if info.day < yourDay then |
12 | -- # ... |
13 | end |
And you'd just do whatever you need to do.
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You would not store the date text. You would store the time plus the number of days the ban is in seconds.
Example
1 | local days = 60 * 60 * 24 -- the number of seconds in a day |
2 |
3 | local function ban(numberOfDays) |
4 | return os.time() + (days * numberOfDays) |
5 | end |
You can then compare the current time is larger than the ban time.
Hope this helps
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