Reinventing time...need help

ecookman · **Posted:** Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:21 pm

What is it you are trying to achieve?
For about 3 months now I have been hating the 24h based time system we use. I have decided to reinvent time. I want to make it so 12h=1h thus there are only 2 hours in one day. From here i will convert the minutes and seconds.

What is the problem you are having?
I am not quite sure on how to do the conversions and rework my countdown timer so it tells a converted time.

Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)
here is my countdown timer.

Turing:

var christmas : string := "25 Dec 08 00:00:00"
loop
var totalseconds : int := Time.DateSec (christmas) -Time.DateSec (Time.Date)
var days, hours, mins, secs : int

days := totalseconds div 86400
totalseconds:=totalseconds-days*86400

hours := totalseconds div 3600
totalseconds:=totalseconds-hours*3600

mins := totalseconds div 60
totalseconds:=totalseconds-mins*60

secs := totalseconds

var total :int := days*86400+hours*3600+mins*60+secs

var f1 :int := Font.New ("Airil:40:bold")

colorback (black)
color (brightgreen)
Font.Draw (intstr (days) + " DAYS", maxx div 4, 275 ,f1, brightgreen)
Font.Draw (intstr (hours) + " HOURS", maxx div 4, 200, f1, brightgreen)
Font.Draw (intstr (mins) + " MINUITES", maxx div 4, 125, f1, brightgreen)
Font.Draw (intstr (secs) + " SECONDS", maxx div 4, 50, f1, brightgreen)
delay (1000)
cls
end loop

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1.0

ecookman · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:15 pm

bump?

apomb · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:20 pm

Firstly: Dont bump threads

Secondly: you'd have to have the counter counting and simply set the display to change every 12h instead of changing every second, or minute, or whatever incriment you want. so basically, its not a matter of
changing the countdown, its a matter of changing the output.

ecookman · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:24 pm

what?

I am not sure what you mean by change the output...don't I have to get rid of the counting down part. and have it just count time.

apomb · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:37 pm

Ok, yes, i thought you wanted to change that countdown timer into a countdown timer that counts down in 2h days... if you just want to have a 2h/day clock, yes, all you would need was to have it just count time, and every 12h, change the hour. the minutes would be a bit trickier, but not too difficult. There would be 120 "minutes" in your 2h day. Therefore, the minutes would change every 12 minutes. (1440real minutes/120"minutes"). get it?

ecookman · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:38 pm

ooohhh... thanks I'll start working on it!

apomb · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:41 pm

No problem, It got me tinking too, im drawing diagrams and things about this now... haha Its an interesting problem.

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