Post: #4

The server itself does not run according to a real-time clock... it uses its own timekeeping system called "ticks". Sometimes a tick takes a long time, sometimes short, which explains why it doesn't follow the real-time clock very closely. In the sphere ini file there are a bunch of settings that are described as "time it takes (in seconds) for..." In reality, those are all measured in "ticks" not "seconds".

The ONLY functions in the server that are aware of the real-time clock are RTICKS and RTIME:

RTICKS (Returns the real-world time, as a timestamp.)
RTIME (Returns the real-world time, as a formatted string.)

So if you need to time things in your game to a real-time clock, you need to use a scheduled timer (either f_onserver_timer or a TIMERF function - both of which are based on "ticks") and in your function, test the real-time clock and adapt accordingly depending on the precision you want.