>In Marcia's 1001 Things book, she lists a handy utility for calculating elapsed time by using the total seconds.
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>function getminutes
>return int((elapsed_seconds % 3600)/60)
>
>I just now noticed that there is a problem with the way it is returning some values back to the calling program.
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>Using 07/16/2007 08:42:30 as the start time and 07/16/2007 08:49:30 as the ending time, it returns 6 minutes, rather than 7. The days,hours & second functions seem to work just fine.
>
>Any suggestions? Thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dick


See http://www.berezniker.com/display/VFP/Converting+duration+in+seconds+to+time+format