Script to run a gui timer at 6pm

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#1

Hiya, so this is meant to detect when the game time is 6pm, make a gui frame visible, and start a timer.
It doesn’t seem to be working, if you could help that would be great.

local timer = script.Parent.Timer

while true do
	wait(0.1)
	if game.lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() > 6 * 60 then
		timer.Parent.Visible = true
		timer.Text =  ("10")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("9")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("8")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("7")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("6")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("5")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("4")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("3")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("2")
		wait(1)
		timer.Text =  ("1")
		wait(1)
		script.Parent.Visible = false
	end
	if game.Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() > 18 * 60 then

	end
end
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#2

You can use For Loops instead.

for i = minNumber, maxNumber, increment do
    -- // Following code will run every loop.
   wait(1) -- // Amount of time between each loop, if minNumber == maxNumber then the loop stops.
end

Edit: This comment wasn’t supposed to be a solution rather a tip.

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#3

There is a problem where the first if statement is executed every time(10 + 0.1 + time inaccuracies) after 6 AM. As of now, if it passes 18:00, it will execute both blocks, that time added with the new block’s time to cycle.

Also why is it game.lighting and not game.Lighting? A better alternative is game:GetService("Lighting").

You wouldn’t use a while true do loop in this case. Apparently listening in for events would help a lot to not hog up the memory.

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#4 
local timer = script.Parent.Timer
local countdown = false

while wait(.1) do
if game.Lighting.ClockTime > 6 and game.Lighting.ClockTime < 9 and countdown == false then -- 9 = range of time
  countdown = true
  timer.Visible = true
  for i=1,10 do
    wait(1)
    timer.Text = tostring(11-i)
  end
  script.Parent.Visible = false -- dunno if this should be timer.Parent.Visible = false or if this is intended
  countdown = false
-- If you don't want it to repeat again at 6 o'clock have it wait until the clock time is different with this:
  if game.Lighting.ClockTime > 9 then -- also range of time
    countdown = false -- if you are going with this method, remove the other countdown = false directly above here
  end
end
end

Sorry it isn’t more organized I don’t know the replacement for tab in the dev forum.

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