MiKuS

I'm currently doing some work with an appointment script and trying to generate some reports with custom code, i'm having trouble with the mathematics involved.

Here is my problem;
The duration of an event is stored in minutes, now lets say an event goes for 2 hours (120 minutes) i can just divide this by 60 and get my answer, but lets say
the duration is 150 minutes, 2.5 hours how would i convert this to 2 hours and 30 minutes?

Another thing i'm having trouble with is adding on to times, so.. lets say theres an appointment at 23:00 and the duration is 210 minutes (3.5 hours) the end time would be 02:30 how do i mathematically add 3 and 30 minutes to this time without it resulting in being 2630?

DaWei

Investigate the modulus operator. Also, you might have a look at the PHP manual regarding time functions.

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MiKuS

Cheers for the reply, still playing with modulo, so far i have(pseudo code):

150 in hours and minutes:

150/60=2.5 = 2 (round down with floor())
then 1:
50 % 60 = 30

two hours and thirty minutes.

now to work out hours.

edit:
OK thanks, i've sussed it out now. i don't know why i didn't think to use modulo, i guess this is all in the process of becomming a programmer.