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Calculating Time
Name: Xerex Date: May 6, 2004 at 22:54:09 Pacific OS: UNIX Solrais ( SUN OS) CPU/Ram: ULTRA 5
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Hi Everyone,
Do anybody now how to calculate the time say for example the time rendered by an employee at work. What arithemetic commands should I use? Say for example:
Time in 2:00:00 Time out 6:00:00 Time in 7:30:00 Time out 10:30:00
If you have access to gawk (the GNU version of awk) it comes with mktime (which converts a date string to a number of seconds since 01 Jan 1970) and strftime (which converts back). For an example see shift_date.awk.
You can also script the whole thing yourself by splitting the time string into its component parts and using modulus ("%"), e.g. in ksh:
$ print $(( 75 % 60 )) 15
$ print $(( 75 / 60 )) 1
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Response Number 3
Name: Xerex Date: May 14, 2004 at 21:41:06 Pacific
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Hi,
Thanks Nails. I got my mind twisted with this time calculation. :) But it was enriching.
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