Help | change seconds to minutes and hours [still no reply please help]

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#1

hi,
i made chest system with countdown and everything almost but i still need help with the countdown of the chest, i don’t know how to change that from countdown of seconds to countdown of minutes and hours.
can anyone help me with that please?
here is the system: Chest System - Roblox
note: the system is open source so you can check the scripts.
thanks for all the help.

#2

Hmmm it seems complicated but I think it has something to do with putting a while loop which goes off every second.
Let me see so there are 3600 seconds in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute.

#3

thanks but will is work with os.time()?

#4

I think you would use it to save the time people opened up the chest between sessions, right?

#5

So maybe my thought was dividing the time in seconds of the amount of seconds in an hour, getting the remainder, then dividing it by the amount of seconds in a minute then getitng the remainder and putting it in as seconds.

#6

Here it is, it involved some math, but heres a function you can run and maybe put into a module to run it in any script to update seconds to a format of hours:minutes:seconds, run this function every second so it counts down.

function UpdateTimer(timeLeft)
local hoursUn=(timeLeft/3600)
local Hours=math.floor(hoursUn)
local minUn=timeLeft/60
local minu= (math.floor(minUn)-(Hours*60))
local sec=(timeLeft-(math.floor(minUn)*60))
print(Hours .. “:” .. minu .. “:” .. sec)
end

As you can see it takes some math and it took me some time cause I never wrote one of these scripts before, send me feedback if anything goes wrong, I hope it works fine.
Edit:
Sorry, made a mistake on coding the seconds part it should be fixed now. Never hurts to correct

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#7

but the thing that i want to do is just replace the text to like: 00:00:00 h/m/s

#8

You will find the answer to your problem here:

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#9

alright, thank you @RoundfIy333