Hourly Reset Timer that is global

[RockGodDev]

Basically, I have this system where every hour, where the merchant restocks every hour (e.g. 12:00, 13:00).

I want to display a timer on the merchant that counts down to 0, and resets back to 1 hour after hitting it.

Now, this’d be easy to do, but I want it to sync in every server possible, and in this department, I have no clue how to do that.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[12345koip]

You can use the os.date() function.

local current = os.date("*t")

local hour = current.hour
local mins = current.min
local seconds = current.sec

--convert minutes to seconds
local rawMins = mins * 50
--add the seconds to this
rawMins += seconds

--now, run a count controlled iteration until the hour is reached
for i = rawMins, 3600, 1 do
    local current = 3600 - i --get the current countdown position

    --convert the current counter to minutes and seconds
    local mins = math.floor(current / 60)
    local secs = math.floor(current % 60)

    --do things with these timer values
end

[MayorGnarwhal (Gnarwhal)]

You can use DateTime to get a timestamp consistent across all servers. Then, you can restock every hour on the hour by getting the previous/next restock timestamps based on the current time.

local now = DateTime.now().UnixTimestamp
local frequency = 60*60 -- restock every hour

local lastRestock = now - (now % frequency)
local nextRestock = lastRestock + frequency

Then you can have a timer to restock the merchant once DateTime.now().UnixTimestamp > nextRestock. If the merchant has random odds, you can also seed the generator with the lastRestock, so the items will also be identical across servers.

[RockGodDev]

For some reason the time is unsynced.

Shouldn’t it be 15 minutes, not 22?

Sorry if it’s a dumb question but I’m genuinely confused.

[RockGodDev]

Nvm, I fixed it, ty for the script!