Retrieving DateTime

Hi there,
I am trying to get a DateTime figure from PlayerPrefs.

Code (csharp):

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2. long temp = Convert.ToInt64(PlayerPrefs.GetString("last_dateTime"));
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I am not sure if my approach is incorrect, or there is some abnormailirty, because at this point, I have not saved a "last_dateTime", yet.


My error is this..

I save the date time like this, on Quit()...

Code (csharp):

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2.        PlayerPrefs.SetString("last_dateTime", System.DateTime.Now.ToBinary().ToString());

 

if you do

Code (csharp):

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2. Debug.Log(PlayerPrefs.GetString("last_dateTime"));
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whats the output?

 

Alright, I did some searching on the interwebs through some C# documentation and found someone asking a similar question to you though outside the bounds of unity. I tested this and the conversion seems to work perfectly, not that i really understand it, something with the "O" and how that is handled with parsing.

Code (csharp):

1.  using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System;
4. using System.Globalization;
5.  
6. public class DateTimeConversion : MonoBehaviour {
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8.     // Use this for initialization
9.     void Start () {
10.         const string FMT = "O";
11.         DateTime now1 = DateTime.Now;
12.         string strDate = now1.ToString(FMT);
13.         DateTime now2 = DateTime.ParseExact(strDate, FMT, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
14.         Debug.Log(now1);
15.         Debug.Log(now2);
16.     }
17. }

 

you can set a default value for your "Getstring" :

long temp = Convert.ToInt64(PlayerPrefs.GetString("last_dateTime",System.DateTime.Now.ToBinary().ToString()));

 

I am trying to exactly the same thing and getting exactly the same error. Can you remember how you solved this?