I have a Datastore and it stores the os.time() of when a chest was opened. And a local script will run to use that os.time() to countdown how would I do this?
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I would save that os.time() in a Value inside the player, and have a local script compare current os.time() with that of the value.
I have it saved inside a value using Datastore Service. When the player joins the game if they have never opened the chest a value inside of Player will be set to 0 and if they have it’ll obviously have a os.time() for value. Although i wanna make it countdown from 8 hours which is the cooldown period to open the chest again.
Why do you need to use os.time()? The use of tick() would be more fitting for this example.
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You can’t use tick() because it is the local time for the server, not UTC time, so a timestamp generated by one server is not valid on all other servers.
As for how to count down, what part are you asking about exactly? Current os.time() - storedOStime is the time elapsed in seconds. Subtract that from 8*3600, and if it’s a positive result, that’s how many seconds left until you can open it again.
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Well, yes, that could potentially work. os.time will return time since unix epoch. Here is a quick mock-up:
--storedTime = set datastore for initial stored time
local elapsedTime = storedTime - os.time()
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When you open the chest an 8 hour countdown should begin. I’m stuck with how to store the countdown so when they leave game for a hour it’ll say 7:xx:xx etc.