How can I change the timer format from seconds to minutes?

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#1

I have this round script that counts down from 5 minutes and resets upon reaching 0. But I would like to have the timer display in minutes and not seconds, as the script just shows Time: 300. Is there anyway to do this?

#2

You could make a function using the modulus symbol (%) that returns the number of minutes of a time, to actually make it display the minutes and seconds on a timer, you would need to do a lot more complicated functions with string formatting and math, which I don’t really want to do now.

Quick function I wrote in VSCODE:

local time = 1

function ConvertClock(time)
	if time ~= 1 or time ~= 0 then
		return time / 60
	else return time end
end

print(ConvertClock(time))

It works decently, I recommend modifying it to fit your needs.

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#3

It says this in output: attempt to perform arithmetic (mod) on function and number

#4

try renamed the variable time to something else (Not the parameter), since time is a function.

#5

Yes I did that but the same result

#6

Hold on, let me boot up roblox studio, I’m using Lua 5.4 on VSCODE, it might have something to do with the version of Lua I’m working with.

#7

It’s working perfectly for me, I’m not sure what’s happening to you.

#8

I put the code at the start of the script after the variables. Do you think it is because of this?

#9

Maybe something like this could work:

function Timer(seconds)
   for i = seconds, 0, -1 do
      local minutes = math.floor(i/60)
      local sec = math.floor(i%60) -- Optional

      --return string.format("%02i:%02i", minutes, sec)
      RemoteEvent:FireAllClients(string.format("%02i:%02i", minutes, sec))
   end	
end

Edit: I made a tiny error which was I returned the value which would stop the for loop I believe. Instead of that just send it to your clients or the text you want to show.

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#10 
local minutes = math.floor(time / 60)
local seconds = time - math.floor(minutes * 60)

print(minutes..":"..seconds)

time is the variable of raw seconds (300 for instance)

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#11

If you want just a converting function, then you could do something like this:

local e = 130

function ConvertClock(Time)
	if Time ~= 1 or Time ~= 0 then
		local minutes = math.floor(Time / 60)
		local seconds = math.floor(Time % 60)

		return minutes, seconds
	else return Time end
end

print(ConvertClock(e))

My code is outclassed, very sad, yes I took “inspiration” from @TheDCraft.

#12

The timer still looks the same with the function and I use a server script

#13

Yeah so what you would do is use the function and the timer would look something like this: 05:00 instead of 300. Do you have any images of the code or how the timer looks?

#14

the timer is just a gui with text and the script updates the timers text

#15

What does the timer show after you use the function?

#16

You need to make the GUI’s text a combined string of the minutes and seconds.

local e = 130

function ConvertClock(Time)
	if Time ~= 1 or Time ~= 0 then
		local minutes = math.floor(Time / 60)
		local seconds = math.floor(Time % 60)

		return {minutes, seconds}
	else return Time end
end

print(ConvertClock(e)[1]..ConvertClock(e)[2])

--[[
Or you could do:
<GUI>.Text = tostring(ConvertClock(e)[1])..":"..tostring(ConvertClock(e)[2])

]]
#17

It shows the time format in seconds

#18

Do you have an image. I will change the function to only show minutes:

function Timer(seconds)
   for i = seconds, 0, -1 do
      local minutes = math.floor(i/60)

      RemoteEvent:FireAllClients(string.format("%02i:00", minutes))
   end	
end
#19

Try something like this:

function ConvertClock(Time)
	if Time ~= 1 or Time ~= 0 then
		local minutes = math.floor(Time / 60)
		local seconds = math.floor(Time % 60)

		return {minutes, seconds}
	else return Time end
end

for i = 1, 120 do
	<GUI>.Text = tostring(ConvertClock(i)[1])..":"..tostring(ConvertClock(i)[2])
    task.wait(1) -- Make it wait however you want.
end
#20

It give an error saying expected assignment or function call