How to reset daily rewards on specific time

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    Okay so I am new about scripting and just started learning about os.time,os.clock etc and want to reset daily rewards on a specific time like let’s say UTC+2 9am
  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    I Don’t know how to do it
    I made a basic script that resets the daily reward for client every 24 hours after player gets it
    But I am trying to turn it to server daily reset
DailyReward.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
	if player then
		if os.time() >= (player.DailyReward.Value) 	then
			player.DailyReward.Value = os.time() + 86400
		end
	end
end)
  1. What solutions have you tried so far?
    I tried checking youtube and previous post but have no idea about how to reset every daily cooldowns at one time for server not client
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#2

Yeah I still wonder the answer

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#3

You can use a remote event to send to tell the server that they got the reward.

But you could also do this all on the server too no?

#4

I don’t know if the answer is no or yes. like I said I just started learning about os.time so, I don’t know much how to use os.time for server daily reset. all post I saw about os.time was for adding cooldowns like the code I write

what is the point of this? like how telling the server they got the reward will help with daily reward?
I feel like I couldn’t explain my question
like if a player get’s the daily chest at 16.00 I want player to reclaim the chest at 00.00
and if another player get’s the daily chest at 14.00 I also want that player to be able to reclaim the chest at 00.00

#5

You should learn about RemoteEvents, and use them to handle the part:

if os.time() >= (player.DailyReward.Value) then
	player.DailyReward.Value = os.time() + 86400
end

On a ServerScript. If you have a datastore already that can remember the daily reward or keep track of player’s money, you could implement the time for daily reward there.

#6

My bad, I thought you were trying to comunicate from client to server, ideally this should be done on the server

Now this I can answer:

DailyReward.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
	if player then
		if math.floor(os.time()/86400) > (player.DailyReward.Value) then
			player.DailyReward.Value = math.floor(os.time()/86400) -- gets the day
		end
	end
end)
#7

I guess only way to detech if it is working or not. is waiting 2 hours and 55 minutes (which is time remained until new day acording to os.time)
Thanks! I will inform later if it is working or not!

#8

You can manually set os.time() by putting a parameter in the function, here are the docs.

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#9

I just tested and yeah it work’s Thanks. but I wondered somethink else, how can change the reset time to 01.00 not 00.00 adding a hour and changing os.time to (90000) will make it 25 hours I am confused about this a little bit

#10

Follow the format in the docs;

os.time{
    year=2023, month=4, day=6,  -- Date components
    hour=3, min=0, sec=0  -- Time components
} 
-- if time.os returned a time on 4/6/2023 (mm/dd/yyyy) at 2:00am or 2:00
-- this would return a time 1 hour after then, with an hour of 3 or 3:00am
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#11

I understand that part but this means if time changes a day later and becomes 4/7/2023 it won’t return a time 1 hour after

I feel like a stupid when a person clearly explains something to me with documents and I can’t still figure out things…

#12

For this you want to check if the saved os.time is smaller than the current time - a day.

if tonumber(TIME_DATA) < os.time() - 86400 then

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#13

You probably don’t want to do that because a person who joins 5 minutes before 0:00 could get the daily reward twice in 5 minutes.

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#14

this is totally ok. I would rather this

#15

Why would you want it to be like that?

#16

this is a diffucult question why shouldn’t I want it like that?
by the way. is this how should script should look like to set reset time to 01.00?

DailyReward.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	print(math.floor(os.time()/86400))
	local SavedTime =(os.time{
		year=2023, month=4, day=7,  -- Date components
		hour=1  -- Time components
	})
	local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
	if player then
		if SavedTime < os.time() -86400 then
			SavedTime = os.time()
		if math.floor(os.time()/86400) > (player.DailyReward.Value) then
		--if os.time() >= (player.DailyReward.Value) 	then
			player.DailyReward.Value = math.floor(os.time()/86400)
              end
         end

I am not sure about if this one is correct

#17

Try to get rid of the year month and day part in os.time and see what happens. Also you have to save it with DataStoreService.

#18

Also you should probably remove the os.time()/86400 part since it prints 19650 in the console for me and thats way larger than 24.

#19

Yeah I am really confused rightnow
I thought it would give 1 hour later of the date I put there

DailyReward.Value
part is already a saved value if you are talking about it?

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#20

If you set the value with os.time by touching the part it won’t save once the player leaves. Which is why you have to use DataStoreService which is a service specifically made for saving player data to save it.