Server age counter starts from 1 hour?

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#1

I think this is quite self explanatory;

local rStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local startTime = rStorage:WaitForChild("ServerStartTime")

local cafe = workspace:WaitForChild("Cafe")
local tv = cafe:WaitForChild("TV")

local serverInfoPart = tv:WaitForChild("ServerInfoPart")
local surfaceGui = serverInfoPart:WaitForChild("SurfaceGui")
local serverAgeText = surfaceGui:WaitForChild("ServerAgeText")

function FormatTime(seconds)
	local hours = math.floor(seconds / 3600)
	local minutes = math.floor((seconds % 3600) / 60)
	local secs = math.floor(seconds % 60)
	return string.format("%d hours, %d minutes, and %d seconds", hours, minutes, secs)
end

function UpdateLabel()
	while true do
		local currentTime = tick()
		local elapsedTime = currentTime - startTime.Value
		serverAgeText.Text = FormatTime(elapsedTime)
		task.wait(1)
	end
end

UpdateLabel()
#2

For testing purposes i made my own version and it works as intended?

local startTime = tick()

function FormatTime(seconds)
	local hours = math.floor(seconds / 3600)
	local minutes = math.floor((seconds % 3600) / 60)
	local secs = math.floor(seconds % 60)
	return string.format("%d hours, %d minutes, and %d seconds", hours, minutes, secs)
end

function UpdateLabel()
	while true do
		local elapsedTime = tick() - startTime
		print(FormatTime(elapsedTime))
		task.wait(1)
	end
end

UpdateLabel()
#3

Use time() instead, which returns the amount of time, in seconds, that has elapsed since the current game instance started running.

#4

Make sure the value inside of startTime.Value is initialized on server Startup

so basically

local rStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local startTime = rStorage:WaitForChild("ServerStartTime")

local cafe = workspace:WaitForChild("Cafe")
local tv = cafe:WaitForChild("TV")

local serverInfoPart = tv:WaitForChild("ServerInfoPart")
local surfaceGui = serverInfoPart:WaitForChild("SurfaceGui")
local serverAgeText = surfaceGui:WaitForChild("ServerAgeText")

function FormatTime(seconds)
	local hours = math.floor(seconds / 3600)
	local minutes = math.floor((seconds % 3600) / 60)
	local secs = math.floor(seconds % 60)
	return string.format("%d hours, %d minutes, and %d seconds", hours, minutes, secs)
end

function UpdateLabel()
	while true do
		local currentTime = tick()
		local elapsedTime = currentTime - startTime.Value
		serverAgeText.Text = FormatTime(elapsedTime)
		task.wait(1)
	end
end
startTime.Value = tick() -- Initialize The startTime.Value to the current Tick [On Startup]
UpdateLabel()
#5

this seems to fix it, thanks charrrrr

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