GetServerTimeNow is returning the wrong time?

[justin2710 (Him)]

On the server:
while wait(1) do
print(tick())
end

This code prints out " 1748985129.0703309", given that’s its tick.

On the local script:
while wait(1) do
print(workspace:GetServerTimeNow())
end

This prints out “1749003129.763406”

This testing was done in studio.

Is there any reason why this function is so inaccurate? What exactly does it do? I assumed that it was meant to help people time clients with server, but both report their own separate values.

[East98]

According to the documentation on GetServerTimeNow, it returns “a Unix timestamp, similar to os.time()”, not tick(). I just tested code like yours in studio using os.time() instead of tick() on the server and it appears to correspond to the value that the client prints using workspace:GetServerTimeNow(), however I’m not 100% sure if this is guaranteed to hold in a live server.

You could also consider using workspace:GetServerTimeNow() from the server by the way - this is likely the best approach to ensure consistency between client and server.