I need help with this specific script. The goal I’m trying to achieve here is that at the specified time, an event occurs/ends. So in this script, there are 3 events that I want to happen. But for some reason, once a specific time hits, in this case, 7:00 AM (Game time), it prints out the following in the server output in an alternating fashion and it keeps repeating and does not end:
false Event has ended at 8.5:00
true Event has ended at 7:00
How can this issue be resolved?
local Event1 = false
local Event2 = false
local Event3 = false
local targetTime = {
[1] = 7,
[2] = 8.5,
[3] = 9,
[4] = 10.5,
[5] = 11,
[6] = 12.5
}
local function handleEventStatus(EventType, startTime, endTime)
if startTime then
EventType = true
print(tostring(EventType) .. " Event has started at " .. startTime .. ":00")
end
if endTime then
EventType = false
print(tostring(EventType) .. " Event has ended at " .. endTime .. ":00")
end
end
local function checkEventTime(currentHour)
if currentHour == targetTime[1] then
Event1 = handleEventStatus(Event1, targetTime[1], targetTime[2])
end
if currentHour == targetTime[3] then
Event2 = handleEventStatus(Event2, targetTime[3], targetTime[4])
end
if currentHour == targetTime[5] then
Event2 = handleEventStatus(Event2, targetTime[5], targetTime[6])
end
end
game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function()
local currentTime = game.Lighting.ClockTime
local currentHour = math.floor(currentTime)
checkEventTime(currentHour)
end)
This helped me a little bit. But I ended up fixing this part to prevent the constant repeating pattern:
local function handleEventStatus(EventType, startTime, endTime)
if startTime then
if EventType == false then
EventType = true
print(tostring(EventType) .. " Event has started at " .. startTime .. ":00")
end
end
if endTime then
if EventType == true then
EventType = false
print(tostring(EventType) .. " Event has ended at " .. endTime .. ":00")
end
end
end
But now the issue is that this prints at the same time when it’s at 7 AM (Game Clock Time):
false Event has ended at 8.5:00
true Event has ended at 7:00
I am trying to do it as follows: when the clock time reaches 7:00 AM the Event starts and once it’s 8.5 (8:30 Clock Time), then the event ends only at that time.
I think that I found something in the code to fix. Look at the variable declarations:
local Event1 = false
local Event2 = false
local Event3 = false
We have three event booleans. Look at your function and at my comment added to it:
local function checkEventTime(currentHour)
if currentHour == targetTime[1] then
Event1 = handleEventStatus(Event1, targetTime[1], targetTime[2])
end
if currentHour == targetTime[3] then
Event2 = handleEventStatus(Event2, targetTime[3], targetTime[4])
end
if currentHour == targetTime[5] then
-- Assigning a value to Event2. I think that you meant assigning a value to Event3
Event2 = handleEventStatus(Event2, targetTime[5], targetTime[6])
end
end
The fix here is replacing the mentioned Event2 with Event3
game:GetService("Lighting"):GetPropertyChangedSignal("ClockTime"):Connect(function()
local currentTime = game.Lighting.ClockTime
local currentHour = math.floor(currentTime)
checkEventTime(currentHour)
end)
In this case the event fires and sets currentHour to the same number multiple times. For example numbers 7, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.7 after rounding down are 7. The script passes the same number for checkEventTime function multiple times making it so the same print statements display the same thing.
I think I see what you mean, which it doesn’t really occur nor do I have an issue with that. But the thing is, even if it’s still at 7:00 AM (targetTime[1]), it fires targetTime[2] at the same time, even though it’s not 8.5 AM yet in clock time. That’s the problem that I am having trouble issue with. The script doesn’t detect when to end the event but fires it when its not suppose to fire yet.
I think that it solves the problem but let me know more if I am wrong.
local function handleEventStatus(EventType, startTime, endTime)
if startTime then
EventType = true
print(tostring(EventType) .. " Event has started at " .. startTime .. ":00")
task.spawn(function()
while lighting.ClockTime < endTime do
lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal("ClockTime"):Wait()
end
print(tostring(EventType) .. " Event has ended at " .. endTime .. ":00")
end)
end
--if endTime then
-- EventType = false
-- print(tostring(EventType) .. " Event has ended at " .. endTime .. ":00")
--end
end
This script works but I had to fix some issues a little bit and prevent the repeating output to print multiple times again. Also, it was missing “game” before “lighting.ClockTime”. But overall this works well! Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it!
