Lua help with os.time()

[silveralol]

hello folks, I'm working on something that uses timer
I set storage to the player

player:setStorageValue(key, os.time() + 20 * 60 * 1000)

so, I want the time left

local timeLeft = player:getStorageValue(key) - os.time()

and send it to player
something like:

player:sendTextMessage('Time Left: 13 minutes and 20 seconds' , MESSAGE_EVENT_ADVANCE)
or
player:sendTextMessage('Time Left: 30 seconds' , MESSAGE_EVENT_ADVANCE)

thanks

 

[Radagast]

I guess that you want to make a translator that gets as input raw seconds and transform to time text. Right?

You will need to make a function that get the seconds and tranform into minutes and hours, returning the string.

function transformTime(seconds)
      -- declare string
      -- make math and append to string
      -- return string
end

 

[silveralol]

I guess that you want to make a translator that gets as input raw seconds and transform to time text. Right?

You will need to make a function that get the seconds and tranform into minutes and hours, returning the string.

function transformTime(seconds)
-- declare string
-- make math and append to string
-- return string
end​

yes, I found some function that do it, but don't know how use it properly

 local function getHours(seconds)
    return math.floor((seconds/60)/60)
end

local function getMinutes(seconds)
    return math.floor(seconds/60)
end

local function getTime(seconds)
    local hours, minutes = getHours(seconds), getMinutes(seconds)
    if (minutes > 59) then
        minutes = minutes-hours*60
    end

    if (minutes < 10) then
        minutes = "0" ..minutes
    end

    return hours..":"..minutes.. "h"
end

this functions convert hours minutes, but not seconds

 

[2Rec]

[Function] time formatting(x days, 1 minute and x seconds left)

 

[silveralol]

[Function] time formatting(x days, 1 minute and x seconds left)

thank you, its works...
but I edit the main function, and get something weird

Spoiler

function showTimeLeft(number, usewords)
    local number = tonumber(number)
    if not number then
        return "error"
    end

    if number < 0 then
        return "expired"
    end

    local clocknum = os.date("!%X",number):split(":") -- h:m:s
    local day = math.modf(number / 86400)
    local hour = clocknum[1]
    local minute = clocknum[2]
    local second = clocknum[3]

    if not usewords then
        return table.concat({day, hour, minute, second}, ":")
    end

    local text = {}

    if minute ~= "00" then
        table.insert(text, tonumber(minute) .. " minute" .. (tonumber(minute) > 1 and "s" or ""))
    end

    if second ~= "00" then
        table.insert(text, tonumber(second) .. " second" .. (tonumber(second) > 1 and "s" or ""))
    end

    countdown_text = ""
    if #text > 0 then
        countdown_text = text[1]
        for i = 2, #text - 1 do
            countdown_text = countdown_text .. ", " .. text[i]
        end
        if #text > 1 then
            countdown_text = countdown_text .. " and " .. text[#text]
        end
        countdown_text = countdown_text .. " left."
    else
        countdown_text = "expired"
    end
    return countdown_text
end

I just remove day and hour..
then using my "idea" I set the timer by using

player:setStorageValue(key, os.time() + 1 * 60 * 1000)

for test, but the timer show 40 minutes, instead 1 minute less...

 

[2Rec]

You dont need to remove day and hour, if time is short enough it will show just minutes and seconds.

 

[silveralol]

You dont need to remove day and hour, if time is short enough it will show just minutes and seconds.

if I don't remove it it should alots of days
look:

16 hours, 39 minutes and 53 seconds left

when I use:

player:setStorageValue(key, os.time() + 1 * 60 * 1000)

and get the timer by using:

player:sendTextMessage('Time Left: ' ..showTimeLeft(timeLeft, true))

 

[2Rec]

os.time() is in seconds.
60 000 seconds = 16 hours

 

[silveralol]

os.time() is in seconds.
60 000 seconds = 16 hours

aaaaaaaaaaaaa, my bad, I do a mistake by using it as use in addEvent() :/ thank you very much