Time Format Extension - Millis to [HH:mm:ss] - [days + HH:mm:ss] - [HH:mm] - [mm:ss] etc

[Anke]

[alelalelale]

Wowww!! awesome!!
Thanks a lot Anke

[alelalelale]

I would like to share my experience with the community.

Thank you again @Anke

[foetusmachine]

Hi @Anke,

Is it possible to convert YearsDaysHoursMinSec back to millis? Or do I just use:

[Anke]

@foetusmachine

s it possible to convert YearsDaysHoursMinSec back to millis?

[foetusmachine]

Thank you.

It looks like something that would be worth adding to the extension at some point, considering the number of blocks required.

[Anke]

@foetusmachine

would be worth adding to the extension at some point

Why? That is not the purpose of the extension. Read the topic.
And by the way, there are blocks in the Clock component for that.

[foetusmachine]

No worries. Just suggesting a broader purpose.

I'll probably be using the clock component.

[palaiologouiason]

Is there a way, using this extension, to have the time counting continue even after I close the stopwatch app, when I open it it continues to count until I decide to stop and reset it, so that it counts?

[Lito]

I am very grateful for this extension.

It adds a huge value to the clock functions! And I have used it a lot in my projects.

Nevertheless, I had a doubt...

At one point, my necessity was to multiply a time lapse * 4

I tried numerous combinations of 'make instant' along with the various possibilities of your extension ... but nothing solved this question. In the end, I ended up doing the account and creating the format manually ...

The question that does not want to silence is:

Is there any way simpler to get to this same result?!?

I will be grateful if you answer me

[Kevinkun]

here is a solution with no extension needed:

Above blocks are draggable.

[Lito]

Thank you so much for answering. Very kind of your part.

A very ingenious logic ... but I was imagined that there would be a simpler, more elegant and more concise form than that »

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[ABG]

There's no format code for zone offset?
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

[TIMAI2]

A small z should provide the offset

[ABG]

App Inventor Clock problem

To understand this behavior, we have to be rigorous about the definitions of the terms Instant Duration An Instant is a milestone on the road of time. The road starts in the year 1970. Some Instants are Milestones in today's section of the road, starting at midnight, depending on where you got them (DatePicker vs TimePicker, etc.) You can tell you have an Instant when you try to display it as text and you get a lot of labelled details you did not expect. A Duration is a pure number of mil…

There is a long discussion on this problem here.

[Anke]

@Lito

Is there any way simpler to get to this same result?!?

[ABG]

Here's a recursive blocks only approach.
You have to divide milliseconds by 1000 and round on your way into the function.

hh_mm_ss.aia (2.4 KB)

[Lito]

@ABG

Here's a recursive blocks only approach.
You have to divide milliseconds by 1000 and round on your way into the function.

hh_mm_ss.aia (2.4 KB)

Thanks for this idea...

But it still seemed to me a complex way, to break a temporal expression in parts and mathematically deal with these fractions until it reaches the goal.

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[Lito]

@Anke

@Lito

Is there any way simpler to get to this same result?!?

Ahh! This was simple and elegant!

Convert mm:ss in HH:mm:ss and resolve with the TFormat extension itself

This is the answer I were looking for!

Thank you

PS: In the next version of the extension you could add a lapse multiplier ^^

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