How do I make a timer that uses minutes and seconds? 00:00

[Ayphi (Ayph)]

Hello! I am working on a game and want to use a timer that uses minutes instead of having the seconds only. I have been trying for hours to do this but I cannot get it down. Thanks for the help!

[TheCarbyneUniverse (Carbyne)]

I’ve actually created a module to allow you to convert a number of seconds to a timer format. Read more here:

TFM - Time Formatting Module [v. 1.0.0]

Attention User This is not an April Fool’s joke! This TFM module is obsolete. Please consider using TFMv2 instead, which is much more powerful. Thank you! [InstantlyGetModule] If you want, you can also check out my tweet. Greetings developers! Happy April Fools! Today is the date of the fools, but also my first module. Have you ever had to turn a boring number of seconds to a readable and common time display format? [ExampleTFM] Well, my module does exactly this. It does all the work …

I recommend you use this because normally, you’d have to have many for loops within each other, and it just gets crazy. So, all you have to do with the module is iterate over the number of seconds and convert them each time with the module.

[sjr04 (uep)]

local function digital_format(n)
    return string.format("%d:%02d", math.floor(n/60), n%60)
end

The "%d" is a format specifier for digit, the "%02d" specifies at least two digits and zero-padding. So if the number were 9 it would be 09 in the string. If it were 10 it would just be 10.

[Guest618271]

Woah!! How does this even work?

[Ziffixture (Ziffix)]

He’s utilizing string patterns. %d refers to digit. He’s inputting two digits:

1. The number of minutes in the seconds (seconds / 60)
2. The number of seconds remaining after factoring out minutes in #1 (known as modulo)

The second number is given a padding of 2 zeros max

[Guest618271]

That’s actually really helpful. I’ve haven’t used or heard of this until now! Thanks for the link since I’ll be learning about this for the next 1-2 week.

[SownMoney707431 (Sown)]

Use os.date, it’s made for that exact purpose