Utility Methods API for PubNub Lua SDK

The methods on this page are utility methods that don't fit into other categories.

Time

This function will return a 17 digit precision Unix epoch.

timetoken = (Unix epoch time in seconds) * 10000000

Example of creating a timetoken for a specific time and date:

08/19/2013 @ 9:20pm in UTC = 1376961606
timetoken = 1376961606 * 10000000
timetoken = 13769616060000000

To fetch Time you can use the following method(s) in Lua SDK:

pubnub_obj:time(callback)

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`callback`	function	Yes	Callback function to call with the received time (token).

pubnub_obj:time(function(t)
    textout("Got timetoken: " .. t)
end)