How to add a sleep or wait to my Lua Script

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I m trying to make a simple script for a game  by changing the time of day  but I want to do it in a fast motion  So this is what I m talking about   function disco   hour  minute  setTime   1  0   SLEEP setTime   2  0   SLEEP setTime   3  0   end   and so on  How would I go about doing this

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wxLua has three sleep functions   local wx   require  wx  wx wxSleep 12    -- sleeps for 12 seconds wx wxMilliSleep 1200    -- sleeps for 1200 milliseconds wx wxMicroSleep 1200    -- sleeps for 1200 microseconds  if the system supports such resolution

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Lua doesn t provide a standard sleep function  but there are several ways to implement one  see Sleep Function for detail   For Linux  this may be the easiest one   function sleep n    os execute  sleep      tonumber n   end   In Windows  you can use ping   function sleep n    if n  gt  0 then os execute  ping -n      tonumber n 1       localhost  gt  NUL   end end   The one using select deserves some attention because it is the only portable way to get sub-second resolution   require  socket   function sleep sec      socket select nil  nil  sec  end  sleep 0 2

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function wait time      local duration   os time     time     while os time    lt  duration do end end  This is probably one of the easiest ways to add a wait sleep function to your script

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This homebrew function have precision down to a 10th of a second or less   function sleep  a       local sec   tonumber os clock     a        while  os clock    lt  sec  do      end  end

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If you have luasocket installed   local socket   require  socket  socket sleep 0 2

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if you re using a MacBook or UNIX based system  use this  function wait time  if tonumber time     nil then os execute  quot Sleep  quot   tonumber time   else os execute  quot Sleep  quot   tonumber  quot 0 1 quot    end wait

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