How do i make an Event Countdown?

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#1

So basically i want to recreate a day/night countdown timer like in scp-3008. Like in 5 minutes theres gonna be night, after it changes to night, u have to wait another 5 mins to switch it back to day. Anyone knows how to make this?

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#2 
wait(300)

Your welcome…

(That was a joke)

local timeb = 300
for time = 1, 300 do
      timeb = timeb +1
end
#3

I’m pretty sure you play with numbers to make it every x seconds (in game) add x seconds to the game.Lighting.TimeOfDay

#4

This won’t work since the loop will complete basically instantly, and timeb does nothing.

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#5

You could use tick() or os.time() for it, they are very useful.

os.time()

os

Tick()

Tick() How do I use it?

Examples

tick()

local current_time = tick()

task.Wait(300) -- 300 seconds = 5 minutes

print(tick()-current_time) -- would print 300
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#6 
local timeb = 300
for time = 1, 300 do
      timeb = timeb + 1
      wait(1)
end
#7

Use ‘task.wait’ not ‘wait’. ‘task.wait’ is more dependable than ‘wait’.

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#8

I don’t know, I used it and it broke stuff and used ‘wait’ and worked normally it’s based on what code you’re at.

#9

Make a script and place this inside, you can change up the code.

local countdown = 300
local day = true
while count ~= 0 do
    count -= 1
    wait(1)
end
if day then
    game.Lighting.ClockTime = 4 --Can change this for the time of Night you like.
else
    game.Lighting.ClockTime = 14 --Can change this for the time of Day you like.
end

Haven’t tested so let me know if this works or not.

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