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addition of time

Posted by bschultz (bschultz), 27 October 2003
Can someone point me in the right direction on how to add time in PHP.

For example:

The format would be like this
Code:
1:02.8 (1 minute, 2 seconds, 8 1/10ths)
1:05.2



I need to add that to get 2:08.0 (2 minutes, 8 seconds)

Then, I'll need to divide that number by the number of races run for the average time per race (which in this case would be (1:04.0)

Is this possible in PHP?

Thanks.

Brian


Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 27 October 2003
Of course - anything's possible in PHP  

[Sorry - been a long day's drive and it has warped my sense of humour]

The best way to deal with time arithemetic (in any language) is to convert to seconds, do the sums, and convert back again.  I would suggest a regular expression match to extract the minutes and seconds, multipy the minutes by 60 and add the seconds, do the maths, and use the / and % operators to convert back, followed by sprintf.

Would you like me to code an example?  Too tired to do so tonight (It's 11 pm in Dublin where I am) but I could do so tomorrow evening ....


Posted by bschultz (bschultz), 28 October 2003
Graham,

I can strip it down to seconds...but would need some help getting it back into a time format.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Brian

(hope you get a good night's sleep!

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 28 October 2003
Example of formatting a time in seconds into minutes and seconds, as per your format:

Code:
<form>
<input name=seconds>
</form>
<?php
if ($seconds > 0) {
       $mins = floor ($seconds / 60);
       $secs = $seconds % 60;
       printf ("%.2f seconds should display as %d:%02.1f<br>",
               $seconds, $mins, $secs);
       }
?>


Available for test at http://www.wellho.net/demo/secdo.php4

Got a good night's sleep, yes, thanks ... much recovered now (24 hours later).

Posted by bschultz (bschultz), 29 October 2003
thanks, Graham.  Pretty easy to understand now that I see it in front of my face.  I appreciate it!



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