Script showing local time

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#1

So my issue about this post is that I want to show an irl time zone in the game. But when I have my script in the game it kind of works. When I change my time on my phone and joined the game, it showed the phones local time. I’ve looked through forums and didn’t find a solution, I know there might be one out there, not sure. Can someone help out?

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Icon = require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Icon)

local icon = Icon.new()
	:align("Center")
	:lock()

local res

local function MilitaryToStandard(hour)
	return if hour > 12 then hour - 12 else hour, if hour > 12 then true else false
end

local function ConvertTo2Digit(digit)
	return if #tostring(digit) < 2 then 0 .. digit else digit
end

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	local date = os.date("!*t", os.time() + (3600 * -4)) -- if i changed the -4 to 
	local min = ConvertTo2Digit(date.min)                 -- another number, 
	local hour, isPM = MilitaryToStandard(date.hour) -- it changes time
	local sec = ConvertTo2Digit(date.sec)
	if hour == 0 then
		hour = 12
	end
	local result = "EST TIME ".. hour .. ":" .. min ..":" .. sec
	res = result
	icon:setLabel(result, "deselected")
end)
#2

Have you tried workspace:GetServerTimeNow()?

#3

I think when i was reading that, is that just the server time? Like how long it was active.

#4

No, it returns a server-synchronized Unix timestamp.

This function is useful for creating synchronized experiences, as it has three properties necessary for doing so: it's a real-world time clock, it's monotonic, and it has decent precision.

#5

Can I change it to a timezone I want? Or is it just where the server is?

#6
#7

Read this and not sure why you didn’t send context or where I should be looking.

#8

Unless you go outside of Roblox such as a web service that can get the time zone based off IP,
Roblox uses the sever time. You can use an offset from the server time however.
This script shows the current server time with UTC offset

local timeZoneOffset = os.date("%z")
local currentTime = os.date("*t")
print(string.format("%02d:%02d:%02d UTC%s", currentTime.hour, currentTime.min, currentTime.sec, timeZoneOffset))
#9

If you want EST time specifically, EST is UTC - 5, so 5 hours behind UTC. However, removing 5 hours from UTC will not work when daylights savings is being used (in the summer), because it then becomes UTC -4

You might be able to retrieve the current EST unix time from an http request

#11

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