[ABE.pm] time processing

[Ted Fiedler]

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> The conversion to seconds is simple -- there are 60 seconds in a
> minute, and 60*60=3600 seconds in an hour.  So you just multiply it
> out, and divide by the distance to get the pace.
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> The conversion back to minutes and seconds is maybe a bit trickier.
> If you divide the total seconds by 60, you get minutes.  But we don't
> care about the fractional part, so I used int() to trim it off.  The
> number of seconds in that minute is the remainder when we divide the
> total seconds by 60.  That's what the % operator does.  (For some
> reason people always seem to forget about the % operator.  It's very
> useful.)
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> The formatting is simple with printf.  %02d formats the argument as a
> 2-digit number with leading 0's.
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> Hope this helps.
>

Yes. the modulus is what I was missing and what led me down the path of
external modules.

Thanks guys!

Ted

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               -- Schmidt
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