Unable to make this time cycle work

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#1

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I’ve tried doing this at least 10 times now, and I’m about ready too give up. All I want it to do is add to the in-game time. And when it reaches 14 reset back to 12.

The value stays on 12, however.

Two things to note: I am aware there is no wait() in there. But it’s literally 3:30am and I’m not going to bother fixing it right now.
And 1 is a test value to see if it works quickly. The real value will be lower.

What’s going wrong? I’m just irritated with it now.

#2

Try this maybe?

while wait() do
  if Time == 14 then
     Time = 12
  else
     Time += 1
  end
end

Since your is running on a Condition, once that condition is met, the loop will break

#3

Returning the ClockTime value just returns a number. Try this instead:

local l = game.Lighting

while l.ClockTime <=4 do
l.ClockTime += 1
end

if l.ClockTime == 14 then do
l.ClockTime = 12
end
end

I wrote this in mobile so it might be wrong.

#4

ClockTime is a Number, I’m pretty sure you can manipulate it

(No, youre right:

local Time = game.Lighting

while wait() do
	if Time.ClockTime == 14 then
		Time.ClockTime = 14.1
	else
		Time.ClockTime += 1
	end
		

end

)

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#5

That’s because you are using ClockTime as the value for the variable name Time. What you are doing is something like this:

local object = { Value = 0 }
local objectValue = object.Value

objectValue += 1

Printing the result of object.Value will still be 0, because objectValue is separate from object.Value all it did was copy the data from it; it should be object.Value += 1 and disregard the objectValue variable. In your case you need to do this:

local parent = script.Parent

while task.wait(0.1) do
	parent.ClockTime += 1
end

Still, this method is not the proper way to create a day-night cycle. There should already be a lot of tutorials on the internet; just search “day and night cycle Roblox.”