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var timestamp: double;

Description

The time stamp when the Message was sent in seconds.

Timestamps can be used to implement interpolation or extrapolation of continous streams of packets The timestamp is passed as a double to avoid overflow when a game is running for a long time. Internally timestamps are sent as 32 bit integers with millisecond accuracy to save bandwidth. Timestamps are automatically adjusted to be relative to Network.time. Thus Network.time - messageInfo.timeStamp is the time the packet spent in transit.

	var something : float;
	var transitTime: double;
	function OnSerializeNetworkView (stream : BitStream, 
		info : NetworkMessageInfo) {
		var horizontalInput : float = 0.0;
		if (stream.isWriting) {
			// Sending
			horizontalInput = transform.position.x;
			stream.Serialize (horizontalInput);
		} else {
			// Receiving
			transitTime = Network.time - info.timestamp;
			stream.Serialize (horizontalInput);
			something = horizontalInput;
		}
	}

function OnGUI() { GUILayout.Label("Last transmission time: "+ transitTime); }