How would I fit putting this into a text box work?

[Pooglies]

So I recently got this script for a very kind and helpful person, but I have no clue as to how to put this into a text box and make it show up with the time, any help? Here is the script.

local Lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")

local hourRaw = tonumber(Lighting.TimeOfDay:match("^%d+"))
local hour12h = math.floor(hourRaw % 12)
local isPM = (hour / 12) >= 1

if hour12h == 0 then
    hour12h = 12
end

[colbert2677 (Dreamseeker)]

You need to form a string out of that data.

How would I go about making roblox's "Military time" to normal time

Military time is actually 24-hour time, where numbers are displayed between 0 and 24. What you’re looking for is to convert this into 12-hour time, which the hour is between 12 with an ante/post meridiem (AM/PM) mark to show the hours before or past midday, 12:00. You’ll need to do a few conversions here, based on the number itself. Don’t overwrite the number however, since you’ll need it for later. The first is to get the hour between 0 and 12, then to determine whether it is ante or post meri…

local formattedTime = ("%d:%d %s"):format(hour12h, "00", isPM and "PM" or "AM")
TextLabel.Text = formattedTime

This was included in my response, aside from how to fetch minutes.

[Pooglies]

Line 5 of the script, which is
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local isPM = (hour / 12) >= 1

`

the “hour” is unknown.

[colbert2677 (Dreamseeker)]

Ohh, excuse me. Change that to this:

local isPM = (hourRaw / 12) >= 1

Corrected in the linked thread as well.

[Pooglies]

Now, the only issue im having here is, for my game, I have it set up so that its a build up knowning, when the next time is, any way to add minutes to that? Also, its stuck at 2pm?

[Pooglies]

I might change it to while true do.

[colbert2677 (Dreamseeker)]

Also, its stuck at 2pm?

Most likely because you did not add it into a loop of some sort and just copy-pasted the code into the script. This is a relatively primitive situation which you could fix by adding this in yourself as opposed to relying only on code I post. I don’t provide whole scripts to use, I provide segments that you need to modify to work for your use cases.

I have it set up so that its a build up knowning, when the next time is, any way to add minutes to that?

How would I go about making roblox's "Military time" to normal time

Getting minutes is something you’ll have to work out on your own using string manipulation. At the very least though, keep in mind we have access to string.split now. You can split TimeOfDay by each : and use the entries in the return array [1] for hours, [2] for minutes and [3] for seconds.

[Pooglies]

I tried this, and it timed out, should I add a wait of a second or 2?

local Lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")

while true do

local hourRaw = tonumber(Lighting.TimeOfDay:match("^%d+"))

local hour12h = math.floor(hourRaw % 12)

local isPM = (hourRaw / 12) >= 1

if hour12h == 0 then

hour12h = 12

end

local formattedTime = ("%d:%d %s"):format(hour12h, "00", isPM and "PM" or "AM")

script.Parent.TextLabel.Text = formattedTime

end

[colbert2677 (Dreamseeker)]

Again, something else you could figure out on your own without me telling you. The script times out because your while loop doesn’t have a wait in it. Luckily, timeout behaviour does exist, because regularly this would have crashed Studio.

Yes, you should add a wait at the end of the loop.

[Pooglies]

I will definetly edit this to add minutes, thank you so much for your help, this has been very helpful.