Variable won't change in function

[SentorAmery250 (YourSenator)]

In a script, I’m trying to collect data from another server script that has an in-game countdown and change a variable to that data. However, the variable remains nil forever. Any way to fix this?

local t

function Countdown(num)
	local connection
	connection = game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function()
		num = game.ServerScriptService.RoundMaker:GetAttribute("TimeLeft")
		if num == 0 then
			connection:Disconnect()
		end
		return num
	end)
end

t = Countdown(t)

[SentorAmery250 (YourSenator)]

It turns out, based on the output, the function doesn’t run until after the repeat loop after is ran through. So there’s some additional information.

[SentorAmery250 (YourSenator)]

And because the repeat loop runs first, all I had to do was put the t = function line in the repeat loop.