How to make an increasing timer

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#1

i have a bodycam and theres a timer on it that should go up the longer you are in the game

its in the hh:mm:ss format
how would i do this?

#2

something like this could work

local timer = 0

local function FormatTime(sec)
    local hours, minutes, seconds
    
    hours = math.floor(sec/3600)
    sec = sec%3600
    
    minutes = math.floor(sec/60)
    sec = sec%60

    seconds = sec

--Use these variables here to update your display
end

while true do
    timer += 1
    FormateTime(timer)
    task.wait(1)
end
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#3

how would i implement those into this
image
its a textlabel

#4

As taken from this solution here:

You can use this code to format it

function Format(Int)
	return string.format("%02i", Int)
end

function convertToHMS(Seconds)
	local Minutes = (Seconds - Seconds%60)/60
	Seconds = Seconds - Minutes*60
	local Hours = (Minutes - Minutes%60)/60
	Minutes = Minutes - Hours*60
	return Format(Hours)..":"..Format(Minutes)..":"..Format(Seconds)
end

And in the while true do loop provided by @SeargentAUS, make it update the text label by doing TextLabel.Text = convertToHMS(timer)

Full code:

local TextLabel = path.to.TextLabel

local Timer = 0

function Format(Int)
	return string.format("%02i", Int)
end

function convertToHMS(Seconds)
	local Minutes = (Seconds - Seconds%60)/60
	Seconds = Seconds - Minutes*60
	local Hours = (Minutes - Minutes%60)/60
	Minutes = Minutes - Hours*60
	return Format(Hours)..":"..Format(Minutes)..":"..Format(Seconds)
end

--[[

or use this simplified code taken from another reply to the code above

local function convertToHMS(s)
	return string.format("%02i:%02i:%02i", s/60^2, s/60%60, s%60)
end

--]]

while task.wait(1) do
    Timer += 1
    TextLabel.Text = convertToHMS(Timer)
end

In the circumstance the script is counting from the server, you can use a remote event for it to tell the client when the timer is increased

#5

Are those gray boxes textlabels? If so, can I see them in Explorer?

#6 
local textLabel = script.Parent

local function formatTime(_time)
	local hours = math.floor(_time / 3600)
	local minutes = math.floor((_time - hours * 3600)/60)
	local seconds = math.floor(_time - 3600 * hours - minutes * 60)
	return string.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", hours, minutes, seconds)
end

local _time = 0
while true do
	task.wait(1)
	_time += 1
	textLabel.Text = formatTime(_time)
end

You would just need to place this script inside the TextLabel instance, remember to disable the ScreenGui’s ResetOnSpawn property if you want the timer to persist across deaths.