TFS 1.X Counter starts when the player has a storage.

[donabimbo]

Greetings, I was thinking of making a counter by getting a storage.
When getting for example the storage 4000, start a counter with its days, hours, minutes and seconds.
This is an example: when saying !time, tell me the player has storage since 4 hours, 6 minutes and 17 seconds.
It is to know how long was the player with X storage. I need this for a quest task, that when the player accepts a mission a counter starts.
I only need the counter function.

 

[Leo32]

You use Epoch Time
that is going to be the value to assign to the storage 4000

-- Set epoch time value
local epochTime = os.time()

-- Add 6 hours to epoch time
local newEpochTime = epochTime + (6 * 60 * 60)

-- Check if current epoch time is after newEpochTime
if epochTime > newEpochTime then
print("Current time is after newEpochTime") -- 6 hours has expired, tell player they have failed quest and to go get it again
else
print("Current time is not after newEpochTime") -- quest is still active
end

epoch time is a representation of a date/time but can be stored as a single INT or STRING
So you use a timestamp for storage 4000, and then whenever you need to check or display a counter you can convert it back to a human readable date/time:

-- Calculate the time difference
local currentTime = os.time()
local timeDifference = os.difftime(currentTime, epochTime)

-- Convert time difference to hours, minutes, and seconds
local hours = math.floor(timeDifference / 3600)
local minutes = math.floor((timeDifference % 3600) / 60)
local seconds = math.floor(timeDifference % 60)

-- Display the elapsed time
local elapsedTime = string.format("%d hour(s) %d minute(s) %d second(s)", hours, minutes, seconds)
print("Elapsed Time:", elapsedTime)

 

[Xikini]

Example of it being used.

local storageKey = 4000

local give_storage = TalkAction("/give_storage", "!give_storage")

function give_storage.onSay(player, words, param)
    -- give the storage
    player:setStorageValue(storageKey, os.time())
    player:sendTextMessage(MESSAGE_STATUS_CONSOLE_BLUE, "Your storage has been set as the current time.")
    return false
end

give_storage:separator(" ")
give_storage:register()

local storageKey = 4000

local tell_time = TalkAction("/tell_time", "!tell_time")

function tell_time.onSay(player, words, param)
    -- get the storage you gave with other talkaction
    local epochTime = player:getStorageValue(storageKey)
 
    -- Calculate the time difference
    local currentTime = os.time()
    local timeDifference = os.difftime(currentTime, epochTime)
 
    -- Convert time difference to hours, minutes, and seconds
    local hours = math.floor(timeDifference / 3600)
    local minutes = math.floor((timeDifference % 3600) / 60)
    local seconds = math.floor(timeDifference % 60)
 
    -- Display the elapsed time
    local elapsedTime = string.format("%d hour(s) %d minute(s) %d second(s)", hours, minutes, seconds)
    player:sendTextMessage(MESSAGE_STATUS_CONSOLE_BLUE, "Elapsed Time: " .. elapsedTime)
    return false
end

tell_time:separator(" ")
tell_time:register()

 

[donabimbo]

@Leo32 @Xikini
Thank you both very much, what I wanted to do worked successfully for me.