topic API_Attribute.header.modiTime vs API_Element.header.modiStamp in Archicad C++ API

API_Attribute.header.modiTime vs API_Element.header.modiStamp

drjustice — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:15:40 GMT

Can someone explain the difference between modiStamp and modiTime?

I figured out that modiTime is a straight unix time stamp.

Ex: attribute.header.modiTime = 1569584172 = Fri Sep 27 2019 11:36:12 GMT+0000

Ex: element.header.modiStamp = 46103487 = ???

Is there a way to convert one from the other?

Re: API_Attribute.header.modiTime vs API_Element.header.modiStamp

Tibor Lorantfy — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 06:50:28 GMT

Hi,

modiStamp is not related with time, it's just an incremental stamp. If one element's modiStamp is higher than the other's, then that element was modified later. You can interpret it as a version of the project's database. As soon as something changed, then that "version" will be increased and the actually modified/new elements get that number.