timer in game

[fair turret]

Hi I need help idk if this can work in gdevelop but is there a way that I can make a timer in days and it countdown the days for an event to end or start and when you exit the game it will still countdown just like in free free

[hallow lynx]

@fair turret what you can do is save a timestamp thats the current time+whatever you want to count too

[fair turret]

How do I do that?

[hallow lynx]

function addTime(addition, unit) {
  const currentTime = new Date();
  let futureTime;

  switch (unit) {
    case 'minutes':
      futureTime = new Date(currentTime.getTime() + addition * 60000);
      break;
    case 'hours':
      futureTime = new Date(currentTime.getTime() + addition * 3600000);
      break;
    case 'days':
      futureTime = new Date(currentTime.getTime() + addition * 86400000);
      break;
    default:
      return 'Invalid unit. Please provide "minutes", "hours", or "days".';
  }

  return futureTime.getTime(); // Return the future time in Date number format
}

then ```js
addTime(3, 'days')

so like ```js
let future=addTime(10,'days')

let Seconds=(future- Date.now())/1000
``` ==How many seconds left till that time

so all you do is you save that future variable and check what future-Date.now()/1000 is

once you get that that's the seconds

  var formatTime=(seconds)=> {
    const days = Math.floor(seconds / 86400);
    seconds %= 86400;
    const hours = Math.floor(seconds / 3600);
    seconds %= 3600;
    const minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60);
    seconds %= 60;
    const parts = [];
    if (days > 0) parts.push(`${days} day${days > 1 ? 's' : ''}`);
    if (hours > 0) parts.push(`${hours} hour${hours > 1 ? 's' : ''}`);
    if (minutes > 0) parts.push(`${minutes} minute${minutes > 1 ? 's' : ''}`);
    if (seconds > 0) parts.push(`${seconds} second${seconds > 1 ? 's' : ''}`);
    if (parts.length === 0) return '0 seconds';
    if (parts.length === 1) return parts[0];
    const lastPart = parts.pop();
    return `${parts.join(', ')} and ${lastPart}`;
  }

then all you do is ```js
formatTime(863829.032)

'9 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes and 9.03200000000652 seconds'

will return this string

as the time gets less itl show less etc