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Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:32 am**

This program will be for adding times in minutes and seconds and presenting the output in an attractive mm:ss format. It is part of a larger work in progress intended for adding segment times of TV programs in minutes and seconds (all segment times are presumed to be under one hour). The finished program will convert segment times to seconds, add the number of seconds and display the result in mm:ss format.

You would think this could be done in Excel, but Excel gives inaccurate results when adding segment times. I have tried different time formats in Excel but no joy.

Suggestions welcome.

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Global time$,seconds

Procedure ToSeconds(time$)

seconds=Val(StringField(time$,1,":")) *60 ;CONVERT MINUTES TO SECONDS

seconds+Val(StringField(time$,2,":"))

;Debug seconds

EndProcedure

Procedure FormatTimestr(seconds)
;mins = Val(StringField(time$,1,":"))
mins = Int(seconds / 60)

secs = seconds - (mins * 60)

If secs < 10: sec$ = "0" + Str(secs) ;PAD WITH LEADING 0
Else
sec$ = Str(secs)
EndIf

If mins > 0 ;DROP LEADING 0
Debug Str(mins) + ":" + sec$
Else
Debug ":" + sec$
EndIf

EndProcedure

;ToSeconds ("1:30")

FormatTimestr(121)

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2019 2:02 am**

chris319 wrote:Suggestions welcome
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FormatTimestr(121) ; 2:01

My version:

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Procedure.s FormatTimestr(secs)
  If secs<0
    t$="?:??"
  Else
    t$=FormatDate("%hh:%ii:%ss",secs)
    t$=LTrim(Mid(t$,FindString(t$,":")+1),"0")
    If Left(t$,1)=":" : t$="0"+t$ : EndIf
  EndIf
  ProcedureReturn t$
EndProcedure

Debug FormatTimestr(-1) ; ?:??
Debug FormatTimestr(0)  ; 0:00
Debug FormatTimestr(1)  ; 0:01
Debug FormatTimestr(59) ; 0:59
Debug FormatTimestr(60) ; 1:00
Debug FormatTimestr(61) ; 1:01
Debug FormatTimestr(121); 2:01

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:13 am**

Negative seconds would be an error.

Posted: **Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:19 am**

My code checks for negatives. Comparison:

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; Your code:
Debug FormatTimestr(-121) ; ":0-1"

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; My code:
Debug FormatTimestr(-121) ; "?:??"

Or you could just not call the procedure if the seconds are negative (do a pre-test).

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