Time, Timezone and Expressions

[Dan Ebberts]

I think the only way it would know would be if the second time were less than the first time (assuming a 24 hour clock). That would limit your range to +24 hours. If that’s the case, you could just convert the two times to minutes, see if the second time is less than the first time, and add the “+” if it is. Or maybe I’m not understanding…..

Dan

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Judging by your example I assume that your script calculates the schedules on fixed offsets.

So the second show is 13 hours and 15mins after the 1st and tokyo’s showing is 7 hours after london’s.

Can’t you write a conditional that basically add’s the offset’s at each stage and when it goes over 24 it adds the plus?

something like this:

startTimeHours = 5;
startTimeMins = 30;

city2_Offset = -1;
city3_Offset = 7;
showOffset = 13.25;

city1_time1 = startTimeHours + (startTimeMins/60);

city1_time2 = city1_time1 + showOffset;
city2_time1 = city1_time1 + city2_Offset;
city2_time2 = city2_time1 + showOffset;
city3_time1 = city1_time1 + city3_Offset;
city3_time2 = city3_time1 + showOffset;

if (city1_time1 + showOffset > 24) {
city1_time2 = city1_time2 + “+”;

}else{

if (city1_time2 + city2_Offset > 24 {
city2_time2 = city2_time2 + “+”;

}else{

if (city1_time2 + city3_Offset > 24 {
city3_time2 = city3_time2 + “+”;

}

-lloyd

[Rafael Oliveira]

Dan and Lloyd,
Thank you both, from both your posts I’ve got some ideas on how to proceed with this. I’m trying to do this whole thing slider-based (not defining actual variables) as I have to do lots of these things per day, around 30.
What I think I’ll do is the following: I would use a slider to enter the hour of the day on my timezone (Brazil) and another for the minutes, since they don’t change. Then I’ll create the appropriate show times in the other timezones, convert them to minutes, and then compare them to 1441 (that’s midnight and one) which is the time the plus sign appears. If the time is over that, a sign shows up, if not, no sign. The exception is when the first show time is over midnight, than nobody gets a sign.

Now I’ll brainstorm on *how* to actually program that…

Thanks again!

Rafael