A timer that saves forever

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#1

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

  1. I want a timer that counts up from 0 to inf even after someone leaves for example 1 hour and then join back i want the timer to be an hour higher

  2. i cannot find someone talking about this anywhere

My script currently is =

local startTime = os.time()

local TextLabel = script.Parent


local function sToHMS(s)
	local h = math.floor(s/3600)
	s = s % 3600
	local m = math.floor(s/60)
	s = s % 60
	return string.format("%02i:%02i:%02i", h, m, s)
end

game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	TextLabel.Text = sToHMS(os.time() - startTime)
end)
#2

That should work! Do you need help saving the startTime in a datastore?

#3

Sure but if you join back does it start later cause i want it to go on forever even if nobody is in the server

#4

Servers automatically close when there is no one in it

#5

Yeah! the script you shared does not need to be “running” the time elapsed is calculated on-use, as long as you save to a datastore the timestamp method will work nicely. You will need to keep track of saveTime on the server (Script instead of LocalScript) to save it.

#6

I wouldn’t use a data store, if they are trying to count up from a specific point in time (e.g how long has it been since last Christmas, for example), then I would just find the os.tick value for that date and use that as a constant

e.g.

local startTime = 4928482 

local TextLabel = script.Parent


local function sToHMS(s)
	local h = math.floor(s/3600)
	s = s % 3600
	local m = math.floor(s/60)
	s = s % 60
	return string.format("%02i:%02i:%02i", h, m, s)
end

game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	TextLabel.Text = sToHMS(os.time() - startTime)
end)

The start time I put was a random number, but you can put it as whatever you want