Calculate time

[sockoo]

hey all .. i yet again need ur help .. i have to create a program in which tells me how much time has gone by sence midnight .. hense if the user has entered 14:25 it would output 865 minutes ..
i know how to program it but .. how would i figure out the minutes from midnight till 14:25 ? .. there's 60 minutes in an hour but .. would i times 14.25 * 60 = 855 .. so0o im 10 off .. where am i going wrong unless my teacher wrote the question wrong

[lyam_kaskade]

The problem is 14.25 isn't the same as 14:25
since there are 60 minutes in an hour
0.25 = 1/4 = 15 /60
so 14.25 would be 14:15, not 14:25
what you need to do is take the hours (14) times 60
and then add the minutes (25)
so, hours*60 +minutes

[lyam_kaskade]

code:

var time1 : string var min1 : int := 0 var divid, time2 : int put "what is the time" get time1 : * min1 := strint (time1 (1 .. 2))*60 + strint (60 + time1 (4 .. 5))

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[sockoo]

alright thanks but i'v still got a problem ...

code:

var time1 : string var min1 : int := 0 var divid, minutes  : int var time2, time3, time4  : real put "what is the time" get time1 : * time2 := strreal (time1) time3 := time1 (1 .. 2) time4 := time1 (4 .. 5)

[lyam_kaskade]

Hmmm...I'm not sure I follow.
The strreal won't work unless the string is made of entirely integers/decimals.
In this case it would have a colon ("14:25)" which can't be changed.
Why do you need to strreal it anyway? Do you need the time in hours or minutes?

[sockoo]

it had to be in minutes .. but i just took the ez way out ..

code:

var hou, minu : int put "what is the hour" get hou cls put "what are the minutes" get minu cls minutes:= hou * 60 + minu put minutes, " minutes have passed sence midnight"

it for was for a test .. and i didnt have enough time so0 hey it works .. he never said how it had to be done .. heh