Network.timeStamp

Unity Engine
1

Hi

In the documentation is said that timeStamp is transfered as number of milliseconds stored in an int.
So I see a problem here int: 2^32, which is approx 60 days. What will happen if server will be running longer than that?

Greets

2

Most servers get maintance every week or so, you could have the timeStamp reset then?

3

Thanks. I guess probably it will be reseted every week, but I just asked theoretically - what will happen.

After reading more about networking I guess anything very bad shouldn’t happen if unity is prepared for that.

4

You could test what would happen when you over load a int.

int i = 1;

void UpDate()
{
i++
print("Your Number is: " + i);
}

Run that for a min or two and it should max out the int and give you a error or maybe nothing will happen.

5

You’re pretty optimistic ! Reaching 2^32 with simply i++ ? :smile:

Go for Mathf.Pow, it is faster :wink:

var i : int = 10;
function Update () {
	i += Mathf.Pow (2, i);
	print ("i=" + i);
}
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