Can you make a better optimization for my day/night script

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This belongs in #help-and-feedback:code-review, not scripting support.

@SnarlyZoo Is correct that your script will not cause lag. However, it can be improved in other ways.

  1. wait(0.25) will not always wait exactly 1/4 of a second. wait is an unstable function and doesn’t always do what you want.

  2. You don’t need to update lighting every fourth of a second anyways

Combining these two pieces of advice:

local lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")

local minutes = 840

local GAME_MIN_PER_REAL_MIN = 10 -- game time runs 10 times faster than real time

local DO_UPDATE_EVERY = 5 -- update lighting every 5 seconds (independent of above setting)

while true do
    lighting:SetMinutesAfterMidnight(minutes)

    local secondsActuallyWaited = wait(DO_UPDATE_EVERY)
    
    minutes += GAME_MIN_PER_REAL_MIN * secondsActuallyWaited / 60
end
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