How do I make a gui pop up depending on the time of the day

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#1

Whenever it turns a certain time like 18:00:00 in my game, Using The timeofday property, in lighting, is it possible to make a gui visible whenever it hits 18:00:00 in my day and night cycle

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#2

I think “os.time” will work, don’t really know much about these but you can take a look and it’ll maybe work.

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#3

I believe OP is talking about game time rather than time in real life so you can use GetMinutesAfterMidnight. Here is the API:

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#4

I inserted this script into the frame that I want to be visible when its a certain time

if game.Lighting.TimeOfDay == “13:20:00” then
script.Parent.Visible = true
end

this script is not working what’s the problem

  • a local script Btw
#5

In the conditional try using this instead (it returns a double of the amount of minutes after midnight):

game.lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight()

Also make sure your day/night script doesn’t skip over the time you set. A good practice to be safe from this is instead of using if equal to, use “if greater than or equals” or “if less than or equals”

#6

Try using this.

local Lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")
Lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal("ClockTime"):Connect(function()
	if Lighting.ClockTime == 6 then
		-- do something
	end
end)

Also you should note that you are using the quotes wrong, it should be " and not “!

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#7

To add onto the things over here, wouldn’t you have to make it a loop? Cause else it would only check the moment you start the game. You want it to check at all times.

Or am I completely wrong? I am not a scripter tbh.

#8

Having :GetPropertyChangedSignal will check the value everytime it gets changed so loops are unneccessary in that case!

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#9

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local Lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")
Lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal("ClockTime"):Connect(function()
	if Lighting.ClockTime == 6 then
		-- do something
	end
end)

local Lighting = game:GetService(“Lighting”)
Lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal(“ClockTime”):Connect(function()
if Lighting.ClockTime == 6 then
– Thing I want to happen
script.Parent.Visible = true
– the gui does not turn visible
end
end)

#10

is the script inside the frame you want to make visible? I have tested this prior posting and it works

#11

Its A Local Script That Is Inside The Frame I want to turn Visible

#12

is your day/night cycle using TimeOfDay instead of ClockTime? if so you would just have to change ClockTime with TimeOfDay and that should be it

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