New Year Script not matching with my time

dummycide · December 31, 2021, 2:30pm

I’m trying to make a new years countdown script but realized that the counter works BUT it doesn’t match the timezone that I’m currently in… How do I fix this?

local newYear = os.time({year = os.date("%Y", os.time() + (365*24*60*60) - (24*60*60)), month = 1, day = 1})


while wait(1) do
	
	local currentTime = os.time()
	
	local timeDiff = newYear - currentTime
	
	
	local d = math.floor(timeDiff/60/60/24)
	local h = string.format("%0.2i", math.floor((timeDiff - (d*60*60*24))/60/60))
	local m = string.format("%0.2i", math.floor((timeDiff - (d*60*60*24) - (h*60*60))/60))
	local s = string.format("%0.2i", timeDiff - (d*60*60*24) - (h*60*60) - (m*60))
	local formattedTime = d .. ":" .. h .. ":" .. m .. ":" .. s
	
	script.Parent.Clock.ClockGui.TimeToNewYear.Text = timeDiff <= 0 and "00:00:00:00" or formattedTime
	
	if timeDiff <= 0 then

		break
	end
end

ignite_rock · December 31, 2021, 2:42pm

Replace currentTime with tick().

tick() returns the local time in UNIX epoch.

GreatPanda3 · December 31, 2021, 2:45pm

You can use os.date() together with os.time() to get a player’s local time.

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

This is also saves you having to calculate the seconds, minutes etc. yourself.

Qinrir · December 31, 2021, 2:45pm

see this article and it will solve the problem

NyrionDev · December 31, 2021, 2:46pm

You can use local date = os.date("*t", os.time()) on the client which gets the local time of the current client.

dummycide · December 31, 2021, 3:15pm

This didn’t really help me because it still doesn’t match with my time. Also, how do I match the UTC time to mine? (Mine is UTC -5)

Qinrir · December 31, 2021, 3:19pm

then use PAGOTATZIS2’s method

dummycide · December 31, 2021, 3:23pm

So do I just replace the current time with that?

regexman · December 31, 2021, 3:40pm

You misunderstood him, he wants a time specifically on his timezone, not by server time.

NyrionDev · December 31, 2021, 4:02pm

Are you trying to apply different timezones for each client? or apply your own to every client?

dummycide · December 31, 2021, 4:10pm

I’m trying to apply it just to my timezone (so EST)

NyrionDev · December 31, 2021, 4:19pm

local hours = 5
--os.time() returns the number of seconds since the unix timestamp
local seconds = os.time()-hours*3600 --an hour has 3600 seconds
local date = os.date("!*t", seconds)

print(date.year, date.month, date.day, date.hour, date.min, date.sec)

ignite_rock · December 31, 2021, 5:26pm

tick() is not the server time.