What is the best way to make a minutes : seconds timer?

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#1

Hello, I’m Mario and I’m currently working with my team. My friend and I(the scripters) are making the round system but we don’t know the best way to make a timer that can be converted into a function that displays minutes and seconds. We currently think repeat until is the best way to make it. I’m open to any suggestions, thanks for helping!

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#2

You can use some remainder math to extract the seconds value

function timer(Time)
    local seconds = Time % 60
    local hours = (Time - seconds) / 60
    return hours, seconds
end
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#3

I have a game that uses something similar but for money:

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The way I accomplished this is by handling the loop itself on the server. From there I can hook a callback function to be executed every second of the loop that then lets me update the GUI.

Yours is a bit different though since you need a game loop not individual loops for each player. The way you could do this is like so:

local roundTime = 300; -- 5 minutes 
while wait(1) do
  if roundTime <= 0 then
    roundTime = 300; -- reset the timer
    -- do other game stuff in here once it reaches 0
  end
  updateClient:FireAllClients(roundTime); -- update all the client timer GUIs
  roundTime -= 1;
end

Then on your clients:

updateClient.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(roundTime)
  local minutes = roundTime / 60;
  minutes = minutes - (math.fmod(minutes, 1));
  local seconds = roundTime - (minutes * 60);
  -- you now have your minutes and seconds just format them
  guiTextLabel.Text = tostring(minutes) .. ":" .. tostring(seconds)
end)
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#4

You might be able to use some sort of event that sends a signal to start and stop a timer on the client.
To calculate the time, you can just use a while loop to keep adding 1 to the seconds value.

There’s also the option of setting an intvalue and using a GetPropertyChangedSignal to change it on the client.

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#5

This can work with a for loop timer, thanks!