How to turn seconds into days/hours/minutes/seconds

[Real_FoxBlox (FoxBlox)]

Hello! I am trying to program a live event, and I had it all working fine but the countdown is in seconds (I was using UNIX time.) how would I go about making a countdown with days/hours/minutes/seconds, like Jailbreak did with their live event?

Thanks!

[Moonvane]

everything there should work, except put the “if currenttime >= stopTime then” and the two lines below it right below where you define CurrentTime so the live event doesnt play for new servers after it happened

[Real_FoxBlox (FoxBlox)]

Yeah, I don’t want it to play for new servers after the StopTime, but my problem is how would I make the time in seconds, turn into days,hours,minutes etc.

[Moonvane]

local seconds = CurrentTime
local minutes = CurrentTime / 60
local hours = CurrentTime / 3600
local days = CurrentTime / 86400

[Conejin_Alt (DisplayNameHere)]

Here is a thread about that with a solution that could help you:

Is possible to convert os.date/time into a UNIX date?

One of my first posts, was fixing a script that starts an event in a defined date. A month later i made a post about doing a countdown for it, the best answer was using UNIX time with a special code, I feel that searching for an UNIX time is kinda hard than using os.date/time. So, my question is: there’s a way to convert os.date/time into a UNIX date? Thanks for reading

I think that might help you

[Real_FoxBlox (FoxBlox)]

I added that to my code, but it comes out with a really large number, when it should be around 9 days. Did I do it wrong?

[Real_FoxBlox (FoxBlox)]

Thanks! Ill read it right now!

[Rare_tendo]

You’re basically getting the days, hours, minutes and seconds from the UNIX epoch. This can be used to get the time until a point of time in the future:

local t = startTime - CurrentTime
local seconds = t % 60
local minutes = math.floor(t / 60) % 60
local hours = math.floor(t / 3600) % 24
local days = math.floor(t / 86400)

[Conejin_Alt (DisplayNameHere)]

Sorry, I linked the wrong post, here is the real post:

Countdown script can't get the day from "Nil"

Because you’re using universal time. Currently it is 20:53 at UTC-0 If you want to get the days, hours, and minutes between two times you can do something like this in the context that its the days, then hours remaining after the days are subtracted, then minutes remaining after the hours left have been subtracted: local timeTable = { year = 2020, month = 5, day = 1, hour = 15, min = 50, sec = 0 } local timeMeasurements = { {"days", 60 * 60 * 24}, {"hours", 60 * 60}, {"minutes", 60} …

If you need more assistance about how to add seconds or something else, you can ask me.

[Philipceo90 (Phil)]

Wouldn’t the seconds be the os.time because you wrote

local seconds = currenttime