Issues learning time os

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Hello anyone know whats wrong in this code? (im learning)

local date = os.time()
local day2year = 365.242 -- days in a year
local sec2hour = 60 * 60 -- seconds in an hour
local sec2day = sec2hour * 24 -- seconds in a day
local sec2year = sec2day * day2year -- seconds in a year
-- year
print(date // sec2year + 1970) --> 2021.0
-- hour (in UTC)
print(date % sec2day // sec2hour)
-- minutes
print(date % sec2hour // 60)
--seconds
print(date % 60)
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I use a calculator using the same formulas and it worked fine..

Replace the double slashes to a single slash, as such: /

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Actually, disregard my previous response… can you explain what exactly the issues seem to be?

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hum, nĂŁo sou programador, perdĂŁo.

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If you want the individual components of time this is built in already:

local now = os.time()
local asATable = os.date("*t", now)
print(asATable.year)
print(asATable.hour)
print(asATable.min)
print(asATable.sec)

If you just want a string like “The time is 10:48 PM on April 18, 2022” there are even easier ways, which I’ll explain if you want.

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Thank you very much! yes, i would like to know :smiley:

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Passing "*t" to os.date means “break this into its components as a table”. Technically you don’t need to give it the second argument, it defaults to “now”.

Passing anything other than "*t" means “look for specific substrings in this and replace them with the associated components”. For example:

local now = os.time()

local formatString = "It is %A, %x at %I:%M:%S %p"

print(os.date(formatString, now))

Prints out

It is Tuesday, 04/19/22 at 08:54 AM

The full list of options is here: os | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

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