Stopwatch to the thousandths of a second

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#1

I am currently attempting to create a stopwatch which begins from 00:00.000 and counts in the milliseconds for a player’s attempt on a “run” (attempt of a level).

The issue I have is that when I use wait(0.001) or task.wait(0.001), it is rate-limited and doesn’t tick in the correct precision.

The way I tried to get over this was by using os.clock() to calculate the difference between two times, but I want the player to be able to see the timer tick reliably.

		local playerStartTime = os.clock()
		repeat
			player:FindFirstChild("TimerMillisec").Value += 5
			if player:FindFirstChild("TimerMillisec").Value == 100 then
				player:FindFirstChild("TimerSec").Value += 1
				player:FindFirstChild("TimerMillisec").Value = 0
			end
			if player:FindFirstChild("TimerSec").Value == 60 then
				player:FindFirstChild("TimerMin").Value += 1
				player:FindFirstChild("TimerSec").Value = 0
			end
			task.wait(0.05)
		until player:FindFirstChild("TimerOngoing").Value == false
		print(os.clock() - playerStartTime)
	end
#2

Just put it into a render stepped then add in the delta time which is given in the function

#3

You can either switch to using render step and using the deltaTime that it provides, OR you can set the output of task.wait() to a variable.

wait() / task.wait() is assumed by most to be of return type void (i.e. it returns nothing), however it actual returns the delta time. So, if you just do

local dt = task.wait()
milliseconds += dt

then you should get closer to your desired outcome

#4

you can use the time difference directly

local t_start = os.clock()

while true do
    local t = os.clock() - t_start
    secs = t // 1
    millisecs = t - secs
end
#5

You mean like this that was posted 14 days ago?
(I just Searched ‘milliseconds timer’ and got a few hits)

#6

Completely forgot I could’ve just done that, thank you so much.

#7

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