How would you make a countdown to January 1st, 2020 at 12 AM?

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#1

Hello,

I am trying to make a countdown to January 1st, 2020 countdown in Roblox, but it seems that I’m having the problem of having the daysLeft at 0. After reading this and this topic, I had a little bit of better understanding on how to do this, so I tried and, just like every game I make on Roblox, failed. The value of daysTill is 0, yet it should be 91 days. Here is my code and most of it is from this topic.

local newYearsDay = os.time({year=2020; month=1; day=1})
local secondsDiff = os.difftime(newYearsDay,os.time())

local secondsTill = secondsDiff%60
local minutesTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%3600/60)
local hoursTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%86400/3600)
local daysTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%(86400*30)/86400)

repeat
	wait()
	script.Parent.Time.Text = daysTill.." days until New Years."
until daysTill == 0

Thanks for reading! :slight_smile:

#2

I’d recommend using https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/lua-docs/os#date to display this correctly :slight_smile:

The first part of your code looks fine.

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#3

Hello,

When I click the link it goes to the website os.date instead of the dev hub. Might wanna fix that. :slight_smile: Anyway, I’m trying this out.

Thanks!

#4

Hello,

And, seems like I’m getting an error with my code.
Error:

Workspace.Part.SurfaceGui.Script:33: attempt to call local 'daysTill' (a number value)

Code:

repeat
	wait()
	script.Parent.Time.Text = os.date("*t" ,os.time(daysTill()))
until daysTill == 0

Thanks! :slight_smile:

#5

daysTill is a number, not a function. You’re calling it :stuck_out_tongue:

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#6

Thanks for letting me know about this, lol.

:slight_smile:

#7

Now, I’m getting a different number, yay. Fun.

Error:

Workspace.Part.SurfaceGui.Script:34: bad argument #3 to 'Text' (string expected, got table)

Code:

local newYearsDay = os.time({year=2020; month=1; day=1})
local secondsDiff = os.difftime(newYearsDay,os.time())

local secondsTill = secondsDiff%60
local minutesTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%3600/60)
local hoursTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%86400/3600)
local daysTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%(86400*30)/86400)

repeat
	wait()
	local daysTill2 = tostring(daysTill)
	script.Parent.Time.Text = os.date("*t" , daysTill2)
until daysTill == 0

Thanks! :slight_smile:

#8

According to the wiki, os.date reutens a table.

You should correct it with this:

script.Parent.Time.Text = tostring(os.date("*t" , daysTill2).day)
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#9

This seems to have solved the error, but it seems that to the game, there is only 31 days until new years! YAY! But really, there are only 91. Aww. :frowning:

Here is my code:

local newYearsDay = os.time({year=2020; month=1; day=1})
local secondsDiff = os.difftime(newYearsDay,os.time())

local secondsTill = secondsDiff%60
local minutesTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%3600/60)
local hoursTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%86400/3600)
local daysTill = math.floor(secondsDiff%(86400*30)/86400)

repeat
	wait()
	local daysTill2 = tostring(daysTill)
	script.Parent.Time.Text = tostring(os.date("*t" , daysTill2).day)
until daysTill == 0
#10

Please read the wiki page.

Field Type Description
day int An integer between 1 and 31 describing the current day of the month.

You’re going to have to do some math to calculate it.

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#11

I’d also like to add on:

What is the purpose of setting the text until daysTill == 0? daysTill isn’t updating so you’re just wasting performance by doing this.

Also, try and do this to fix it:

script.Parent.Time.Text = tostring(os.date("*t" , daysTill2).yday)
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