How to put system time into hh:mm:ss [SOLVED]

[morrell]

How can I get the system time to display in 24 hours with hh:mm:ss which at the moment my

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put the system time into field "SThhmmss"

is not giving me what I want.

Example:-
I need 3 am. to display as 03:00:00 and 3 pm. to display as 15:00:00

Regards,

Ruth

[Dixie]

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on mouseUp
   set the twelvehourTime to false
   put the long time
end mouseUp

[morrell]

Thank you Dixie.

After adding your code to mine:-

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on mouseUp
set the twelvehourTime to false
put the long time
put the system time into field "SThhmmss"
end mouseUp

Whilst my field does now show the hh:mm:ss as I wanted, I now have a message box appear which I don't want. What do I add or change for no message box to appear?

Regards,

Ruth

[Dixie]

Ruth..

try

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   on mouseUp
    set the twelvehourTime to false
    put the long time into field "SThhmmss"
    --put the system time into field "SThhmmss"
    end mouseUp

[morrell]

That corrected it Dixie and many thanks.

Regards,

Ruth

[morrell]

When I said it was corrected in my previous answer we were on PM time and unfortunately when midnight passed it then displayed as h:mm:ss and not hh:mm:ss

Regards,

Ruth

[dunbarx]

Ruth.

Can you write the couple of lines of code that pad the hours portion of the time with a "0" if it needs one? In other words, can you make "1" into "01"? Do you know about the itemDelimiter, and how it might be used for this?

Craig Newman

[Dixie]

Hi Ruth...

This will correct it...

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on mouseUp
   set the twelvehourTime to false
   put the long time into tempTime
   
   if the number of chars of tempTime = 7 then
      put 0 & tempTime into tempTime
   end if
   
   put tempTime into fld "SThhmmss"
end mouseUp

[morrell]

Thank you dunbarx and Dixie.

Regards,

Ruth