local t = {
year = 2020,
month = 5,
day = 1,
hour = 15,
min = 50,
sec = 0}
local UnixTime = os.time(t)
while true do
wait(1)
local statistics = os.date("!*t", UnixTime - os.time())
print(statistics.year ..":".. statistics.month ..":".. statistics.day ..":".. statistics.hour ..":".. statistics.min ..":".. statistics.sec)
end
The error is in the print, where it tries to get the year. I donât know why this is happening, this is a script i got months ago, i donât know if something is broken since before. Thanks for reading.
Iâm pretty sure you need to use os.difftime() when subtracting time like that.
Print UnixTime - os.time() and see if that prints nil, and also try replacing the - with os.difftime(UnixTime, os.time()).
The issue looks like youâre subtracting incorrectly. You are trying to get the os.date of a negative number, which can not happen because 0 is EPOCH and nothing before will get counted.
If you want to get the amount of days until or from the dates in t you can do something like this:
local t = {
year = 2020,
month = 5,
day = 1,
hour = 15,
min = 50,
sec = 0
}
local UnixTime = os.time(t)
while true do
wait(1)
local diff = UnixTime - os.time()
local minutes = diff / 60
local hours = minutes / 60
local days = hours / 24
print(days, hours, minutes)
end
Notice an output will be negative because 5/1/2020 was 9 days ago, or alternatively â-9â days from us.
As @vtaetwrjxvdpgwjqkfzw said, i was substracting incorrectly, when i printed UnixTime - os.time(), it printed a negative number. The function you gave me didnât work, it expected a table, however, i appreciate your time to help me .
When i changed the minute to 45, which was the moment where the current minute was 42, i tested the script and it wasnât printingt printing the the time i expected: -0 -3 -238, i used math.ceil(), but i donât think it would change the date. Is this happening because of the timezones?
I think what you actually wanted was the remaining times in terms of, if I have the day 5/1/2020 and today is 5/10/2020, I have 9 days, 4 hours, and 58 minutes ago. Is that correct?
Because youâre using universal time. Currently it is 20:53 at UTC-0
If you want to get the days, hours, and minutes between two times you can do something like this in the context that its the days, then hours remaining after the days are subtracted, then minutes remaining after the hours left have been subtracted:
local timeTable = {
year = 2020,
month = 5,
day = 1,
hour = 15,
min = 50,
sec = 0
}
local timeMeasurements = {
{"days", 60 * 60 * 24},
{"hours", 60 * 60},
{"minutes", 60}
}
local unixTime = os.time(timeTable)
local function timeUntil(timeStamp)
timeStamp = timeStamp - os.time()
local sign = math.sign(timeStamp)
timeStamp = math.abs(timeStamp)
local difference = {}
for i, measurement in pairs(timeMeasurements) do
local name = measurement[1]
local value = measurement[2]
local quantity = math.floor(timeStamp / value)
local remainder = timeStamp % value
difference[i] = sign * quantity
if (remainder == 0) then
break
end
timeStamp = remainder
end
return unpack(difference)
end
while true do
local days, hours, minutes = timeUntil(unixTime)
print(days, hours, minutes)
wait(1)
end
5/1/2020 was 9 days ago, 5 hours ago, and 1 minute ago. (the minutes part is inaccurate but Iâm not too sure how to fix that)