How would I use time and tick?

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#1

How would I use time() and tick()?

time() -- What does it do?
tick() -- Also this

Appearently time “measures” time.

#2

time is the number of seconds since the game started running. tick is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.

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#3

This is the Part I’m a bit confused about

#4

It’s the number of seconds since 00:00 January 1, 1970 in UTC.

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#5

wouldn’t you just use os.time() for this? It does the same thing as tick after testing

#6

os.time is based off of UTC time, and tick is based off the timezone of the machine running it. So if you wanted to make a clock to display to the client, you would use tick.

#7

Ok, now I’m getting a Little confused

#8

I guess that will work, but how will I use time in games?

#9

Precision of time() is whole seconds and only useful when you want to see server age… although you should be careful of what you choose based on a specific benchmarking:

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