You can compare the ClockTime instead of the TimeOfDay
You’ll want to do this instead:
if lighting.ClockTime >= 12 then
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You realize there’s an actual integer value in lighting right? No need to do this on the string itself.
Edit: For the nitpickers out there, yes I’m aware its a float 
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lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal('TimeOfDay'):Connect(function()
local indicator
if lighting.ClockTime >= 12 then
indicator = 'pm'
else
indicator = 'am'
end
timer.Text = string.sub(lighting.TimeOfDay, 1, 5) .. ' ' .. indicator
end)
This seemed to work, however it shows as a 24 hour time, instead of 12 hour time
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This may be unrelated but I saw a post about time lines of gamepass that which somewhere located in datastore that you can input the real day and time
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There’s a Date Module for this, I use the one by BlueTaslem, a really smart guy if I do say so myself. If you want real life time.
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I’m not after real life time. As players would all have different timezones, so you’d only be able to play during the day time for the most part. I’m just using in game time and having it change over a period of time
I was just responding to @Wh7sk about there being a far easier way to do this for real life time. For you however, I’m aware you just wanted to do AM/PM.
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I still need the time to be 12 hour time tho. Atm it goes like 14:00 pm, instead of 2:00 pm
Just subtract 12. Make sure you are storing the hour locally. Like in a new variable so you don’t end up setting the time to 2AM. Also only subtract 12 when the 24 hour clock is greater than 12 as in @Kymaraaa post.
I’m setting time like this tho:
timer.Text = string.sub(lighting.TimeOfDay, 1, 5) .. ' ' .. indicator
Using lighting.ClockTime just makes it like 12.0526526725621
Then yeah you’ll want to store the time, Clock Time in a variable… and if its above 12 then subtract 12.
Also use ClockTime instead of TimeOfDay when setting the text. 12.35 should be 12:35PM
Here’s some code that works:
Lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal('ClockTime'):Connect(function()
local Hours = tonumber(string.sub(Lighting.TimeOfDay, 1, 2)) -- Gets the hours, turns 05 --> 5
local Minutes = string.sub(Lighting.TimeOfDay, 4, 5) -- Gets the minutes, keeps the extra 0
local String = '%s:%s %s'
if Lighting.ClockTime >= 13 and Lighting ~= 0 then -- It's between 1pm and 11:59pm
String = String:format(Hours - 12, Minutes, 'pm')
elseif Lighting.ClockTime >= 12 and Lighting.ClockTime < 13 then -- It's between 12pm and 12:59pm
String = String:format(Hours, Minutes, 'pm')
elseif Lighting.ClockTime >= 0 and Lighting.ClockTime < 1 then -- It's between 12:00am and 12:59am
String = String:format(12, Minutes, 'am')
else -- It's between 1:00am and 11:59 am
String = String:format(Hours, Minutes, 'am')
end
timer.Text = String
end)
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Hah, seems I was doing it the long way.
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Seems to work, only bug I saw was at midnight it’s 0:00 am instead of 12:00 am
Also, 12:00 pm is 00:00 pm for some reason
As well, the time is showing as
1 :10 pm. How can I remove the spacee between the hour and the colon?
Also, 12:00 pm is 00:00 pm for some reason
Updated my post to address those issues you stated. The way you want midnight to display is strange, generally you’d want it to be 00:00, but it’s alright.
That’s because the 24 hour clock goes up to 23 and then trips back to 0 for 12AM. Why? no clue. I’m on the 12 hour clock 
Seems to work better now 
small detail that I’m picky on 
During pm, it’s 1:10 pm (which is how I want it)
However, during am, it’ adds a 0 before the numbers. How can I remove said 0 from the start of the am times?
Updated my post to address this, you just had to tonumber() the Hours and Minutes.
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I do it like this:
local hour12 = (math.floor(Lighting.ClockTime)+11)%12+1
local minute = math.floor(60*(Lighting.ClockTime%1))
local suffix = (Lighting.ClockTime>=12) and "PM" or "AM"
For display in a standard clock string, it would be something like:
local timeStr = tostring(hour12)..":"..(minute<10 and "0" or "")..tostring(minute).." "..suffix
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