UKismetMathLibrary::GetSecond

function Engine Blueprint Since 4.0

#include "Kismet/KismetMathLibrary.h"

Access: public Specifiers: staticUFUNCTIONBlueprintPure

Description

Returns the second component of A in the range 0–59. Use this for displaying or comparing time at second precision.

Caveats & Gotchas

• This is the second within the current minute (0–59), not total elapsed seconds since epoch. For total elapsed seconds use Subtract_DateTimeDateTime and call FTimespan::GetTotalSeconds() on the result.
• Sub-second precision (milliseconds, microseconds) is lost. For timing purposes that require better than one-second resolution, work with FTimespan::GetTotalSeconds() (which returns a double) or FDateTime::GetTicks() directly.

Signature

static UE_INL_API int32 GetSecond( FDateTime A );

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
A	FDateTime	The date-time to extract the second from.	—

Return Type

int32

Example

Display a countdown timer C++

FDateTime Deadline = GetDeadline();
FDateTime Now = FDateTime::UtcNow();
FTimespan Remaining = UKismetMathLibrary::Subtract_DateTimeDateTime(Deadline, Now);
int32 SecondsLeft = FMath::Max(0, (int32)Remaining.GetTotalSeconds());
FString Countdown = FString::Printf(TEXT("%d seconds remaining"), SecondsLeft);

Version History

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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