Directly from the always overlooked and forever under used mirc help file.
Quote:
$ctime
Returns total number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970 based on your system time.

$ticks
Returns the number of ticks since your operating system was first started.

So yeah but its still usefull for things like in my example. I figured since he was using a hash table he wasnt concerned with holding the data thru a reboot. Genius at work just submited a much better code than the one I came up with earlier if the op doesnt need to stick with the hash table.

I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, please keep me here.