Is there a command to display number of seconds as hrs:min:seconds?

[Dar Scott Consulting]

Perhaps the dateItems format would get you part of the way there. 

It seems like I have reinvented this in the past several times.

> On Oct 16, 2019, at 6:41 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Not built-in but...
> 
> function formatRemainingTime pTime
>   put trunc(pTime/3600) into tHours
>   put pTime mod 3600 into tTimeX
>   put trunc(tTimeX/60) into tMins
>   put tTimeX mod 60 into tSecs
>   if tHours < 10 then put "0" before tHours
>   if tMins < 10 then put "0" before tMins
>   if tSecs < 10 then put "0" before tSecs
>   return tHours&":"&tMins&":"&tSecs
> end formatRemainingTime
> 
> On 17/10/19, 11:24 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Bill Vlahos via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>    I’m writing a countdown timer application and want to display the remaining time not as the number of seconds but in the format of HR:MIN:SEC left.
> 
>    For example 75 seconds would display as “0:1:15”.
>    130 seconds would display as “0:2:10”.
> 
>    I know how to do the math to figure it out but I’m wondering if there is a built in function to do this.
> 
>    Convert wants to deal with actual time so I would get something like “0:1:15 PM”.
> 
>    Thanks,
>    Bill Vlahos
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