Time Stam/Date Stamp in Chat

there shouldn't be a chat time stamp by default on your server

Did you maybe add any plugins to your server?

Could you please provide a screenshot of what exactly you are seeing?

[plugin]Chat Time Stamp

These timestamps are the result of Zcript, I have never used it so no idea if they can be disabled (after a quick look at the Zcript forum thread I didn't see such an option).

I would recommend replacing Zcript with either the AdminTools Plugin or the ServerTools Plugin both plugins have more or less the same functions but don't include the chat timestamps.

[Plugin] AdminTools

[Plugin] ServerTools v 1.1.0

Alright, Thanks for your help!

Just a note on using any plugin to add timestamps. If you use RCON, depending how the timestamp is added by the plugin, the chat text will not show up in RCON.

Quote from Jon_miner

Just a note on using any plugin to add timestamps. If you use RCON, depending how the timestamp is added by the plugin, the chat text will not show up in RCON.

When calling

event.setCancelled(true);

in PlayerChatEvent will cancel the event totally in rcon from chat even being registered at all. It doesn't matter if you add date or whatever, any modification at all will not show up. In the server logs and game chat itself everything shows up fine. I did a simple test with no date prefixed at the start like the following:

public void onPlayerChatEvent(PlayerChatEvent event){
        event.setCancelled(true); 
        Player player = event.getPlayer();
	player.sendTextMessage(event.getPlayerChatName()+": "+event.getChatMessage());
    }

rcon ignores it entirely.

Quote from shortybsd

When calling

Java

event.setCancelled(true);

in PlayerChatEvent will cancel the event totally in rcon from chat even being registered at all. It doesn't matter if you add date or whatever, any modification at all will not show up. In the server logs and game chat itself everything shows up fine. I did a simple test with no date prefixed at the start like the following:

Java

public void onPlayerChatEvent(PlayerChatEvent event){
        event.setCancelled(true); 
        Player player = event.getPlayer();
	player.sendTextMessage(event.getPlayerChatName()+": "+event.getChatMessage());
    }

rcon ignores it entirely.

That is why red51 added this method a few weeks ago: public void setChatMessage(java.lang.String message). This way you can alter chat messages without cancelling the event and sending your custom message instead as a result all messages appear in RCON too