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How to calculate elapsed time
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
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01016916
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>>>>Wow <g>. I didn't even think of that. I need to learn to find simple solutions myself and not to bother people with my silly questions.
>>>>Thank you very much.
>>>
>>>Don't worry, there is no problem to ask if you don't know something.
>>>
>>>BTW, if you want to format the difference so that it also appears as a DateTime value, you might add it to a midnight DT value. The date part, of course, would be irrelevant.
>>
>>No, I need the result in seconds (actually in hours which is easy to convert).
>>Thank you very much.
>
>What's to convert?
>
>cTime = TTOC({^2005/01/01 00:00}+nSeconds,2)
>
>Take whatever portion of it you need with LEFT() or SUBSTR().

Fred,

I am no sure I understand your suggestion. I was looking for a way to find difference between two T-type values in hours. Hilmar's suggestion works very well. But I don't see how the method you show will help me. What am I missing?

Thank you for your suggestion.
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