I want to do some time verification for player's building progress. Is there anyway to get the timestamp of the server? So I can record the start time that the player start building something and also check whether the building is complete after a while.
[Edit: Since someone just asked me about this post in reference to clock drift, I've updated it to have the more recent info on that (which you can find here: Title-Wide Data Management - Get Time (PlayFab Client) | Microsoft Docs)
There are a couple of options for this:
1. Use the datetime returned from the server. In the response, it's a Header value named "Date".
2. Use Cloud Script to validate the update progress, using the standard getTime in Date().
In either case, it's important to bear in mind that there will be a small amount of clock drift between servers, so the time reflected by either call could differ somewhat (up to 5 seconds).
@Brendan I am using the unity plugin and for the life of me I can't find anywhere where a timestamp is returned from the server. It may be easy to get with a web response, but in Unity I am really struggling.
Can you point it out for me?
Else I am going to have to write a CloudScript function for this one task, which seems a bit daft.
I would also like to know if this is possible - thanks.
Here is the method. Add it to your cloudscript and use everywhere you want
//use_server_timestamps_in_seconds - bool
function getServerTimestamp(use_server_timestamps_in_seconds) { var now = new Date(); var time = now.getTime(); // miliseconds // Get timestamp in seconds if ( use_server_timestamps_in_seconds ) { time = Math.floor(time / 1000); // cast to seconds } return time; }
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var tmstmp_seconds = getServerTimestamp(true);
var tmstmp_miliseconds = getServerTimestamp(false);
