How can I pass miliseconds to hours,minutes and seconds?

[tonitpp]

Hi,

I have a real number and I want to pass it to hours, minutes and seconds. How can I do it? What is the best efficient method?

Thanks,

ToNi.

[altenbach]

You could just do a series of successive Quotient&Remaider operations in a loop.

Attached VI (LabVIEW 7.1) shows two possibilities for the output (array of numers or string).

[tonitpp]

Hi,

Thanks I finally did a series of successive Quotient&remainder combinated with the operations round and truncate to -infinite. Later I attach you my example here.

Could you attach here your vi in LV7 Express format please? I couldn't open it.

ToNi.

[altenbach]

Here's a 7.0 version of the above.

The array output generates array elements corresponding to ms, S, M, H.

The string output generates a string formatted as ...HHHHHH:MM:SS.mmm

Modify as needed.

(The last element of the array constant just needs to be big). You can easily expand it by one element so it also displays days above 24 hours. 🙂

Message Edited by altenbach on 10-26-2005 09:25 AM

[tbob]

Here it is in LV7:

Altenbach had one slight mistake that I corrected.  The top element in the string constant array was listed as %04d.  This cause the millisecond field in the time string to have an extra 0 in front of the millisecond number.  When milliseconds were 890, the time string was hh:mm:ss.0890.  I replaced %04d with %d.  This gives the correct time string no matter how many characters are in the milliseconds field.  Like hh:mm:ss.1 or hh:mm:ss.11 or hh:mm:ss.111

[altenbach]

Thanks tbob, I just caught that one too ;).

[jbrohan]

David Boyd just showed me how to do this using the Format option. It does it automagically.
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[gilmaor1]

Thanks!

[paul_cardinale]