How can i make a clock?

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#1

I want to make a clock for my day night cycle and i do know how to make one sorta but it includes the seconds which i do not want.

How can i only have the hours and minutes for a clock?

#2

Is it a real-time clock or based off of the server?

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#3

A clock that goes off the ingame day night cycle.

#4

You’ll wanna do something like this, assuming you already have a script that gradually changes the TimeOfDay value in lighting.

local timeOfDay = game.Lighting.TimeOfDay
local textLabel = yourGui -- Set this to whatever GUI you want to display the time

while true do
  task.wait(1)
  textLabel.text = string.sub(timeOfDay, 1, 2) .. string.sub(timeOfDay, 3, 4) -- or 5, 6, it depends if the semicolon is included.
end

This script will update the time on the GUI every 1 second.

Now normally this would work, however, I’m not sure if string.sub can read values from the Lighting.

#5

Small typo, commas should be after both timeOfDays.

#6

Fixed, thanks for calling that out.

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#7

Using while true loops in that fashion is a bad practice; use Instance::GetPropertyChangedSignal() instead.
This is assuming all the code you wrote was functioning.

local textLabel = yourGui

game.Lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal("TimeOfDay"):Connect(function()
textLabel.Text = string.sub(game.Lighting.TimeOfDay, 1, 2) .. string.sub(game.Lighting.TimeOfDay, 3, 4) -- or 5, 6, it depends if the semicolon is included.
end)
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