Making a drop party script

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#41

I want it to be crystals every 20 minutes, and cocoa every 15 minutes, so that’s why I made it 20 and 15. I just didn’t change the variable name.

#42

In that case, you would need to restructure the code a little bit. The example I gave was specifically targeted to reset every half an hour, because the if TimeToWait < 0 statement only checks once. It only needed to check once because 1 hour divided into half hours gives 2 (there are 2 half hours in an hour), so it needed to check once (n - 1, where n is how many times an hour can be divided into the sections of the length you want). If we were going by 20 minutes, we would need to check twice, because 1 hour can be divided into 3 20 minute sections.
The restructured code would look a bit like this:

    local CurrentSec = date.min * 60 + date.sec
	local AlignMinutes = 20 -- align with 20 minute intervals
	local AlignMinutesSec = 60 * AlignMinutes -- the number of seconds in each 20 minute section
	
        -- Align the time to the AlignMinutes intervals
	local TimeToWait = AlignMinutesSec - CurrentSec
	print(TimeToWait)
	
        for i = 1, math.floor(60 / AlignMinutesSec) - 1 do
	        if TimeToWait < 0 then
		        TimeToWait = (i + 1) * HalfHourSec - CurrentSec 
	        	print(TimeToWait)
                else break
	        end
        end
#43

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The TimeToWait is obviously under 0, but somehow this code doesn’t run (I think):

for i = 1, math.floor(60 / AlignMinSecs) - 1 do
		if TimeToWait < 0 then
			TimeToWait = (i + 1) * AlignMinSecs - CurrentSec
			print(TimeToWait)
			else warn("TimeToWait is not under 0") break
		end
	end

I didn’t get the warn message when TimeToWait was over 0 either.

#44

Really sorry, my bad. I mis-wrote one of the variables.

It should be AlignMinutes here, not AlignMinSecs, here is the code:

local DateTable = os.date("*t", os.time())

local CurrentSec = DateTable.min * 60 + DateTable.sec
local AlignMinutes = 20 -- align with 20 minute intervals
local AlignMinutesSec = 60 * AlignMinutes -- the number of seconds in each 20 minute section

    -- Align the time to the AlignMinutes intervals
local TimeToWait = AlignMinutesSec - CurrentSec
print(TimeToWait)

for i = 1, math.floor(60 / AlignMinutes) - 1 do
    if TimeToWait < 0 then
        TimeToWait = (i + 1) * AlignMinutesSec - CurrentSec 
    	print(TimeToWait)
        else break
    end
end
print("You need to wait " .. TimeToWait .. " seconds until the next segment!")
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