How to use os.time() (or something else?) to get the hours, minutes, seconds time format?
First of all, I apologize sincerely for not writing a code. I would like to write a code, but I just want to print the hours, minutes, and seconds format in the console. I tried print(os.time()), expecting errors, and of course, I got errors. Can anyone just give me a redirect, or explain to me how to use this to get and print the hours, minutes, and seconds time format with os.time()? That would be very helpful.
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I would suggest using another function available in roblox os.date. This takes in a weird string ... either "!t" (corresponds to not using daylight savings time) or "t" (corresponds to using daylight savings time), and the unix timestamp provided by os.time() (this is a count of the number of seconds elapsed since some date in 1970, usually only machines parse this).
What you get back is a table containing components of the current date (including hours, minutes, seconds). For example.
mydatetable = os.date("*t", os.time())
for key, value in pairs(mydatetable) do
print(key .. " , " .. tostring(value))
end
The above code generated the following output when I ran it a second ago (on an online lua interpreter unfortunately I don't have access to a roblox workstation atm).
min , 53 wday , 3 yday , 127 sec , 40 isdst , true month , 5 year , 2019 day , 7 hour , 1
So to access hours, mins or seconds you would specifically use mydatetable['hour'], mydatetable['min'], mydatetable['sec'].
Cheers.
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