efficiant way to trigger function at exact time

[kuwalda]

Hi.

Let`s say I want to welcome my server users in server every hour, but I want it to happen at exact time hours, like 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 and so on.. Is this possible, because only things I can imagine is setting timer or use "onPlayerJoin" + "checkCurrentTime".

By the way, in server I am using real time in server, so maybe that could somehow help?

function resourceStart() 
    local realtime = getRealTime() 
    setTime(realtime.hour, realtime.minute) 
    setMinuteDuration(60000) 
end 
addEventHandler("onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()), resourceStart) 

[tosfera]

Easy way; set a timer for the remaining minutes/seconds from the time that the player joined until the first whole hour. After that set it each hour.

[botder]

  
addEventHandler("onResourceStart", resourceRoot, 
    function () 
        local now = getRealTime() 
        setTimer(welcomeMessage, (3600 - (now.minute * 60) - now.second) * 1000, 1) 
    end 
) 
  
function welcomeMessage() 
    setTimer(welcomeMessage, 3600 * 1000, 1) 
    local players = getElementsByType("player") 
    for _, player in ipairs(players) do 
        outputChatBox("Welcome!", player, 0, 255, 0) 
    end 
end