Help with Time Calculator

[Misha]

Hi, I am real noob and I know this is an easy question but I just can't figure this out.

My teacher told us to make a program that will take a number of seconds and convert them into days, hours, minutes, and the remaining seconds so for example 50000 seconds becomes o days, 13 hours, 53 minutes, and 20 seconds (thats the example my teacher gave).

so Far I have this code but I can't figure out how to make it so that it does not convert each thing seperatly e.g. 50000 equalling 0 days, 13 hours, 833 minutes, and 50000 seconds.

Here is my code so far:

code:

% ------------------------------------------- % % Date written: Sept 30 % % Input: number of seconds % Output: days, hours, minutes % --------------------------------------------- % declare variables var seconds : real var ans : string put "please enter a number of seconds" get seconds put "minutes ", seconds/60 put "hours ", seconds/60/60 put "days ", seconds/60/60/24

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx

[josh]

What you need to do is convert all the dyas, hours, adn minutes back into seconds and subtract if from the total. Here is an example.

code:

var amount : int %The number of seconds the user wishes to convert var days : int %The number of days that the seconds add up to var hours : int %The number of hours that the seconds add up to after the days var minutes : int %The number of minutes that the seconds add up to after the hours var seconds : int %The remaining amount of seconds %Get the users input put "Please input the number of seconds." get amount %Calcualte the number of days days := amount div 86400 %calculate # of hours hours := (amount - (days * 24 * 60 * 60)) div 3600 %Calcualte # of minutes minutes := (amount - (hours * 60 * 60)) div 60 %Calculate the # of seconds seconds := (amount - ((minutes * 60)+ (hours * 60 * 60)))

then output the results.

good luck

[Paul]

the div and mod commands would help u here

code:

var sec: int put "Enter number of seconds: ".. get sec put "this is ", sec div 86400, " days, ".. sec:= sec mod 86400 put sec div 3600, " hours, ".. sec:= sec mod 3600 put sec div 60, " minutes, ".. sec:= sec mod 60 put sec, " seconds."

that should work, if it doesn't then I am out of practice

[josh]

Im tired the div and mod commands to but while I was doing itm I thjought if the other way and when I tried it I had less eroros (errors with the Div and Mod were probobly my fault) becuas you aren doing essentially the same thing.

I think I ran into problems with the remainder from dyas cconvertin properly into the hours.

[gigaman]

as far as the div and mod commands go it is all about the order you put them in in this program. if you put them in the wrong order your program doesn't work.

[josh]

exactly, which is why I found it easier to just convert everything back into seconds, but that is to complex for most of our class eh???