How to save a value?

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Hello!

I was wondering, how do you save a value? (For example, the current daytime.)

I’m trying to make a fix lighting command.

2

but, what do you mean by ‘save’?

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you can save this value in DataStore.

here is an example of how you can save a table with certain values, you can change it to the time value as you want

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("ServerData")

-- Loading our Table.
local function LoadTable(Key)
	local Data
	pcall(function()
		Data = DataStore:GetAsync(Key)
	end)
	
	if Data then
		return Data
	end
end

-- Saving our Table.
local function SaveTable(Key, DataToSave)
	pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(Key, DataToSave)
	end)
end

-- Usage Example
local ServerData = LoadTable("ServerData")
if ServerData then
	print(ServerData.John.Age)
	print(ServerData.John.Hair)
	print(ServerData.Kyle.Age)
	print(ServerData.Kyle.Hair)
else
	local People = {
		["John"] = {Age = 18, Hair = "Blue"},
		["Kyle"] = {Age = 35, Hair = "White"}
	}
	SaveTable("ServerData", People)
end
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You can use SetAsync to save a value.

Demonstration:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local LightingData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("LightingData")

local value = workspace.Value.Value

LightingData:SetAsync(value.Value)
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Like saving the daytime of when the server started, so that when it changes because of an unwanted instance I can revert it back to what it was before.