GameTime:Get

This is a user-defined function that you can copy and paste into your addon.

This is an ultra-lite library for retrieving server time in second + millisecond precision. It will stay at hour+minute precision for the first minute played, but will be accurate after that.

hour, minute, second = <PREFIX>_GameTime:Get()

Function Parameters

Returns

hour, minute, second

hour

Integer number 0-59

minute

Integer number 0-59

second

Floating-point number with (theoretically) millisecond precision.

Note that the actual precision is limited by your framerate. With 50FPS, the precision will be 1/50=0,02.

Details

The code creates an invisible frame that measures when GetGameTime() moves into a new minute in an <OnUpdate> handler, and uses GetTime() to offset seconds/milliseconds from when it last happened. Obviously, it cannot return second precision until this has happened the first time.

Code

<PREFIX>_GameTime = {

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  -- function <PREFIX>_GameTime:Get()
  --
  -- Return game time as (h,m,s) where s has 3 decimals of
  -- precision (though it's only likely to be precise down
  -- to ~20th of seconds since we're dependent on frame
  -- refreshrate).
  --
  -- During the first minute of play, the seconds will
  -- consistenly be "00", since we haven't observed any
  -- minute changes yet.
  --
  --

  Get = function(self)
  	if(self.LastMinuteTimer == nil) then
  		local h,m = GetGameTime();
  		return h,m,0;
  	end
  	local s = GetTime() - self.LastMinuteTimer;
  	if(s>59.999) then
  		s=59.999;
  	end
  	return self.LastGameHour, self.LastGameMinute, s;
  end,


  -----------------------------------------------------------
  -- function <PREFIX>_GameTime:OnUpdate()
  --
  -- Called by: Private frame <OnUpdate> handler
  --
  -- Construct high precision server time by polling for
  -- server minute changes and remembering GetTime() when it
  -- last did
  --

  OnUpdate = function(self)
  	local h,m = GetGameTime();
  	if(self.LastGameMinute == nil) then
  		self.LastGameHour = h;
  		self.LastGameMinute = m;
  		return;
  	end
  	if(self.LastGameMinute == m) then
  		return;
  	end
  	self.LastGameHour = h;
  	self.LastGameMinute = m;
  	self.LastMinuteTimer = GetTime();
  end,

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  -- function <PREFIX>_GameTime:Initialize()
  --
  -- Create frame to pulse OnUpdate() for us
  --

  Initialize = function(self)
  	self.Frame = CreateFrame("Frame");
  	self.Frame:SetScript("OnUpdate", function() self:OnUpdate(); end);
  end
}

<PREFIX>_GameTime:Initialize();