Could Someone Please Explain The "TimeSyncManager" Module Made By Quenty?

[Aodzt]

Hi, I was recently referred in this post to TimeSyncManager made by @Quenty . It is a module that helps sync time between server and client. But wait, theres a problem…

I don’t know how it works, and don’t understand what does what enough to actually want to use the module. If anyone could care to explain, I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

[RamJoT]

Have you tried DMing Quenty and asking?

[un1ND3X (ice)]

I’ve come across a post like that over here , you can use it to calculate the time passed after an event has fired, or for synchronized time between the Client and the Server.

Quote from TheGamer101 from the mentioned thread,

@TheGamer101

Require the module on both the server and the client, this will return an object that you can use for clock operations. MasterClock on the server, and SlaveClock on the client.
Fire a remote event from the server with the result from the MasterClock:GetTime().
On the client, when receiving the event make sure that the clock is synced using SlaveClock:IsSynced(), otherwise this is not valid…
The time the remote event took to arrive is SlaveClock:GetTime() - the time value you sent over the remote event.

[Quenty]

I’ve updated it to TimeSyncService!

Quenty/NevermoreEngine/blob/version2/Modules/Shared/TimeSync/TimeSyncService.lua

Call :Init() on the client and server!

Then, you can get a synced clock, which is guaranteed to be synced.

-- main script, does not yield, so this on the client and server
require("TimeSyncService"):Init()

-- other script 
local TimeSyncService = require("TimeSyncService")

local syncedClock = TimeSyncService:GetSyncedClock() -- Yielding potentially on client! 

print(syncedClock:GetTime())

Alternatively you can use promises to get a synced clock:

-- main script, does not yield
require("TimeSyncService"):Init()

-- other script 
local TimeSyncService = require("TimeSyncService")

-- yay no yielding 
TimeSyncService:PromiseSyncedClock():Then(function(syncedClock)
    print(syncedClock:GetTime())
end)

This will result in a timestamp that is synchronized with the server! Accuracy is ± 1/30

[Aodzt]

Thank you so much, this will be really helpful to me and many others who are looking for what I was looking for!

[Asendedreality]

@Quenty

local TimeSyncService = require("TimeSyncService")

local syncedClock = TimeSyncService:GetSyncedClock() -- Yielding potentially on client! 

print(syncedClock:GetTime())

How do I import it? I think I’m missing something. I imported the time sync script directly, but it looks for several other subscripts, it appears. Is there an easy way to install, or some sort of guide?

[Midnightific]

Just checking you have Nevermore installed right?