Problems with timers

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I’ve been having problems with something I’ve been trying to make, everything was going fine but now I don’t know what’s wrong. I’m just trying to create it where when a player touches a part a timer will appear at the top of there screen only for that local player.

When one player touches the part for the first time works -

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But when the player touches it for the second time the timer goes into the negatives when its supposed to just reset again and again on each interaction with the part -

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Here is the script that I am using -

local minutes = 1
local seconds = 0

local function End(clonedgui)
	repeat
		if seconds <= 0 then
			minutes = minutes - 1
			seconds = 59
		else
			seconds = seconds - 1
		end
		if seconds < 10 then
			clonedgui.TextLabel.Text = tostring(minutes)..":0"..tostring(seconds)
		else 
			clonedgui.TextLabel.Text = tostring(minutes)..":"..tostring(seconds)
		end
		wait(1)
	until minutes <= 0 and seconds <= 0
	if minutes <=0 and seconds <=0 then
		clonedgui:Destroy()
	end
		end


script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
		if plr then
			if not plr.PlayerGui:FindFirstChild("GUIClonedfromtouchblock") then
				local clonedgui = script.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("ScreenGui"):Clone()
				clonedgui.Name = "GUIClonedfromtouchblock"
				clonedgui.Parent = plr.PlayerGui
				End(clonedgui)
				script.Parent.TouchEnded:Connect(function(hit2)
					if hit == hit2 then
						game.Debris:AddItem(clonedgui,0)
					end
				end)
			end
		end
    end
end)

I think the problem is the second the the player touches the part, the timer doesn’t reset but I’m not sure how to fix this. Thanks.

2

you’re not resetting minute to 1 and second to 0. You should reset these values once your function is called or just simply put your

local minutes = 1
local seconds = 0

variables at the start of your End() function.

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Adding onto @AtomTostcuOzgurUsta’s response, here’s what they mean:

local function End(clonedgui)
	local minutes = 1
	local seconds = 0
	
	...
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