Make a countdown?

[MisterQuestions]

Hey can somebody help me? How can i make a coutdown, Not a simple race countdown

A countdown of days, hours, minutes, seconds, miliseconds?

Can some body help me?

I want to draw a text ("dxDrawText") with the countdown.

But how?

[kevenvz]

local countdownMS = getTickCount() + 86400000 
  
function getTimeMS(ms) 
    local hours = math.floor(ms/3600000) 
    ms = ms - hours * 3600000 
    local minutes = math.floor(ms/60000) 
    ms = ms - minutes * 60000 
    local seconds = math.floor(ms/1000) 
    return hours,minutes,seconds 
end 
addEventHandler("onClientRender",root,function() 
    local h,m,s = getTimeMS(countdownMS-getTickCount()) 
    dxDrawText("Hours: "..h.." Minutes: "..m.." Seconds:"..s,100,100) 
end) 

I think this should be what you mean, haven't tested it so it might contain buggs.

[rtx]

Use 'getRealTime()' otherwise 'getTickCount()' would return the machine's runtime. (That would work just fine if you want the countdown to be relative to player's joining)

[MisterQuestions]

But when player join again, the counter restarts...

[FatalTerror]

But when player join again, the counter restarts...

Thats why you should use getRealTime instead.

[MisterQuestions]

But how to use it, Can you explain me please ?

[Castillo]

I think you could use the timestamp.

[MisterQuestions]

How to use it anyone?