Time Counter

Questions & Answers
1

Hi, can anyone give me please a time counter script? I have one but it don’t works how i want. I want to be hours/minutes/seconds(ex: 01:07:25.43). The problem is that i want the timer to activate only when i press a button, and when the button is pressed again the timer will start from where it remained.

Here is my script:

public Text timerText;
private float startTime;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
	startTime = Time.time;

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
	float t = Time.time - startTime;

	string hours = ((int)t / 3600).ToString ();
	string minutes = ((int)t / 60).ToString ();
	string seconds = (t % 60).ToString ("f2");

	timerText.text = hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
	}
}
3

If you want to convert time to string format. Why not use TimeSpan? It way more easy!

void Update()
{
    System.TimeSpan result = System.TimeSpan.FromSeconds(startTime);
    System.DateTime actualResult = System.DateTime.MinValue.Add(result);
    timerText.text = actualResult.ToString("hh:mm:ss");
    //Or if you want old way.
    timerText.text = result.Hours + ":" + result.Minutes + ":" + result.Seconds;
}

But at first I see you want time counter. You can just add bool variable for it.

public bool timeTick;

Then at update. If you press key. You can just do this.

void Update()
{
    timeTick = Input.GetKey(Keycode.F);
    //If it true
    if (timeTick)
    {
        startTime = Time.time;
    }
}
2

You haven’t reduced t by the hours when you calculate the minutes. So you’ll get correct number of hours the the full time for minutes.

Try

    string hours = ((int)t / 3600).ToString ("00");
    float m = t % 3600;
    string minutes = ((int)m / 60).ToString ("00");
    string seconds = (m % 60).ToString ("00");

Not got access to Unity ATM so can’t test it - sorry.

EDIT - for some reason the format screwed up on the code so I’ve put it as an answer for now.

4

public Text timerText;
private float startTime;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
	startTime = Time.time;

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
	float t = Time.time - startTime;
	string hours = ((int)t / 3600).ToString ("00");
	float m = t % 3600;
	string minutes = ((int)m / 60).ToString ("00");
	string seconds = (m % 60).ToString ("f2");
	
	timerText.text = hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
	if (Input.GetButtonDown("Right")) {
		startTime = Time.time;
	}
}

}

@Toon_Werawat @Mmmpies this is how the scrip ended. It’s exactly what i needed, but when i press the button, it starts from 0. I want to start from where it left.

5

Guys it’s very simple.
Try this one

##CountDown In hours, Minutes and seconds #

countDown -= Time.deltaTime;

countDownText.text = (((Mathf.Floor(countDown / 3600f)) % 60).ToString("00")) + ":" + (((Mathf.Floor(countDown / 60f)) % 60).ToString("00")) + ":" + (Mathf.Floor(countDown % 60f).ToString("00"));

@Basakot