Converting Game Time API

[ClumsyZombie]

I have been toying with this Truckers MP API and well 2 days now been able to get everything else figured out. I wanted to pull the game time API into my site and then display it in Human readable. This is what I have so far. 

    <?php $gametime = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://api.truckersmp.com/v2/game_time"), true); ?>
    <?php echo "Current Game Time: "; echo $gametime['game_time'] ?><br>

So I am trying to figure out when I make the call and this display it how can I convert it and show in human readable. When I go to a converter site it says that  Current Game Time: 2423486 =  Thu, 29 Jan 1970 01:11:26 GMT

 

Is this not EPOCH time that is reported back in the API? Also any way you all know to convert that I would be greatful.....  Just looking for some help as i just started hitting this hard and I am a basic php guy so bear with me please. 

[Bomlife]

<?php
$json = file_get_contents("https://api.truckersmp.com/v2/game_time");
$data = json_decode($json);
$game_time = $data->game_time;
echo date('H:i', mktime(0, $game_time));
?>

 

[Ratcho]

As @Bomlife showed above. Using date() will allow you to return the time, you could also then return other values such as the year, day, date etc via the same function by changing the values to return in the first parameter of date().

 

A list of parameters can be found here:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

[ClumsyZombie]

@Bomlife @illtag Thank you both so much for the help!

[K4su]

https://stats.truckersmp.com/api#game_time

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Game time is expressed in minutes, where 10 real seconds is 1 minute of in-game time. It is number of minutes since 2015-25-10 15:48:32 CET.

That's what I found out after reading through the documentation...

[HumaneWolf]

Keep in mind that you should NOT load the time from our API on every page load, but add your own caching layer. The documentation even has enough info for you to make your own clock counting game time.

[ClumsyZombie]

@HumaneWolf Thanks for the information.