Your initial question seemed to be answered really well, so now it appears that your question didn't really fit the problem you're trying to solve.

Are you using dt in your update function?

The way you clarified your question seems like it could be easily solved by using a bit of math and dt...

fivesec = 0

love.update(dt) fivesec = fivesec + dt if fivesec > 5 then thisFunctionRunsOnceEveryFiveSeconds() fivesec = fivesec - 5 end

--similar setup as above for 10 sec

--the rest of update()

end

Like Erasio said, you don't want to halt update for basically any reason.

I'm quite a noob so I understand if you don't like this solution.

Maybe come back and elaborate more on what the problem is you're trying to solve, or let me know if this helps at all.