/Played
 

On the wiki:

/played

Shows characters creation date, total play time, current session play time, and veteran reward entitlement.

My char has around 458 days on /played but people were saying its broken on p99..

So does the /played counter go off of how many ingame days or IRL days:

1.) An account is logged in?
2.) An account with that character is logged in?
3.) Some other broken time schedule?

Its been broken for ages. Doesnt show correct anything.

Well the timer is running so I wonder what its checking against

It was not always broken. There was a patch after which, as far as I know, the timer started running constantly on all accounts. Case in point, OP's character has 458 days played, he joined forums in Jan 2015 and probably made that character shortly after that, 458 days ago to be exact.

/played shows time since that character was created. Not classic.

458 days since January of 2015?

He made this post today, I'm assuming he checked his /p recently.

Post your /p to see who is wrong, bet you will find out it is you.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?...ce+jan+1,+2015

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?...e+jan+31,+2015

This. My /played once increased more than 24 hours in less than 24 hours irl. I'm not even sure how the server calculated it.