Expression for Digital 24 Hours clock

[Dan Ebberts]

24 hour count down clock (expression for text layer source text):

// 24 hour count down clock

beginHr = 23;
beginMin = 59;
beginSec = 59;
beginHun = 0;

beginTime = (beginHr*60 + beginMin)*60 + beginMin + beginHun/100;

function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
var s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length < myNumDigits) s = '0' + s; return s; } currTime = beginTime - time; hr = digits(Math.floor(currTime/3600),2); min = digits(Math.floor((currTime%3600)/60),2); sec = digits(Math.floor(currTime)%60,2); hun = digits(Math.floor(currTime%1*100),2); hr + ":" + min + ":" + sec + "." + hun Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You’d think I’d have learned by now to always try it before posting. This should work better:

beginHr = 3;
beginMin = 0;
beginSec = 1;
beginHun = 0;

beginTime = (beginHr*60 + beginMin)*60 + beginSec + beginHun/100;

function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
var s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length < myNumDigits) s = '0' + s; return s; } currTime = beginTime - time; hr = digits(Math.floor(currTime/3600),2); min = digits(Math.floor((currTime%3600)/60),2); sec = digits(Math.floor(currTime)%60,2); hun = digits(Math.floor(currTime%1*100),2); hr + ":" + min + ":" + sec + "." + hun Dan

[Gilben]

Dan

Thank you very vewry much for your serious respond.
i will try it your way

i quess i should take some tutorials in expression methods.

thanx alot.
Gil

[Matthewb]

Dan/Anyone

what is taking place here in your expression:
function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
var s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length < myNumDigits) s = '0' + s; return s; } i can follow the rest but am having trouble with what "function" is performing (adobe help, wasnt) then waht is the digits command accomplishing... s i take it is getting the length of myVal i think i can figure it from there... just am not sure what is happening at the beginning... i have to write a clock that starts at a specific point and stops at a specific point over a specified period... i.e. clock starts at 30.0 seconds and over 2 second climb to 43.14 seconds. thanks,

[Brandon Mcfarland]

I’m trying to modify this to make a 48 hour countdown. I’ve got the numbers correct, but I want to try and get the numbers under 10 to display with a zero in front of them. Any tips for that? I tried just changing the begin values, but that didn’t work at all (it didn’t mess up the expression at all though, so I left it).
Thanks.

beginHr = 48;
beginMin = 00;
beginSec = 00;
beginHun = 00;

beginTime = (beginHr*60 + beginMin)*60 + beginSec + beginHun/100;

function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
var s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length) return s;
}

currTime = beginTime - time;

hr = digits(Math.floor(currTime/3600),2);
min = digits(Math.floor((currTime%3600)/60),2);
sec = digits(Math.floor(currTime)%60,2);
hun = digits(Math.floor(currTime%1*100),2);
hr + ":" + min + ":" + sec + "." + hun

[Dan Ebberts]

You didn’t get the whole expression. Try this:


beginHr = 48;
beginMin = 0;
beginSec = 0;
beginHun = 0;
beginTime = (beginHr*60 + beginMin)*60 + beginSec + beginHun/100;
function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length < myNumDigits) s = "0" + s;
return s;
}

currTime = beginTime - time
hr = digits(Math.floor(currTime/3600),2);
min = digits(Math.floor((currTime%3600)/60),2)
sec = digits(Math.floor(currTime)%60,2);
hun = digits(Math.floor(currTime%1*100),2);
hr + ":" + min + ":" + sec + "." + hun


Dan

[Brandon Mcfarland]

That works. Thanks! Now I just have to find a fixed width font that looks decent so it doesn’t look like it’s jumping around as much.

[Gordon Fales]

thanks for posting this.
I want to do the same thing but be able to set a key frame and run it not in real time. For example 20 hours down to 0 in 30 seconds.
Thanks for you help

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m not sure what you want to keyframe, but to run it faster than real time, you just need to add a rate variable, like this:


rate = 2400;

beginHr = 20
beginMin = 0;
beginSec = 0;
beginHun = 0;
beginTime = (beginHr*60 + beginMin)*60 + beginSec + beginHun/100;
function digits(myVal,myNumDigits){
s = myVal.toString();
while (s.length < myNumDigits) s = "0" + s;
return s;
}
currTime = beginTime - time*rate;
hr = digits(Math.floor(currTime/3600),2);
min = digits(Math.floor((currTime%3600)/60),2);
sec = digits(Math.floor(currTime)%60,2);
hun = digits(Math.floor(currTime%1*100),2);
hr + ":" + min + ":" + sec + "." + hun


That should count down 20 hours in 30 seconds.

Dan

[Gordon Fales]

Dan

Thanks so much for your help I may have an easy job for you

Thanks so much

Gordon
gfales@sbcglobal.net