TempBan Help

im making a private ban plugin and i need a bit of help with the tempban times im going to make the command like this

/tempban <player> <time><mon,w,d,h,min,s> <reason>

(mon:Month, w:Week, d: day, h:Hour, min:Minute, s:Second)

so lets say i type "/tempban IcyRelic 5d This should be a 5 day ban"

i should be banned for 5 days with a reason "This should be a 5 day ban" i can do all this but the times i dont exactly know how to calculate anything but minutes in timestamps and when to convert or what here is how i can calculate minutes passed or left

Code:

        //Current Time
        Date start = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
     
        //Time when ban ends (30 Minutes)
        Date end = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis() + 1000*60*30);
     
        //Get time left or passed
        long x = (((end.getTime() - start.getTime()) / 1000)/60);

Now that will return 30 and thats minutes how do i know when to convert and when to not convert because as i said i want to cover months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds

Do i have to convert everything into seconds?

Like this?

Code:

                if(timeFormat.equals("month")){
                    time = ((((time*60)*60)*24)*7)*30;
                }else if(timeFormat.equals("week")){
                    time = (((time*60)*60)*24)*7;
                }else if(timeFormat.equals("day")){
                    time = ((time*60)*60)*24;
                }else if(timeFormat.equals("hour")){
                    time = (time*60)*60;
                }else if(timeFormat.equals("minute")){
                    time = time*60;
                }else if(timeFormat.equals("second")){
                    time = time+0;
                }else{
                    admin.sendMessage("Invalid Time Format");
                }

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Let's use your example command of /tempban <player> 5d
I would take the d and multiply it by 24*60*60 to give you the number of seconds in a day. Then you multiply that number by 5 to get the number of seconds in 5 days.
Then what I would do is set the unban time as

Code:

(System.currentTimeMillis()/1000) + whatever number you got from the above math

If you save that info to a file, you can then set up a login listener that will check to see

Code:

if(System.currentTimeMillis()/1000 >= whatever time you saved earlier) {
//unban the player
}

 

Very useful information, I've been meaning to create a plugin that uses timestamps.