darkheart740

I need to program the time that has passed since Jan 1 1970 to the present. I know that the computer is going to put the time in milliseconds then I have to program it to Hours, minutes, Seconds. I just don't know how to program it so Help!! please. This is in Java btw

Nhb93

Well I'm just going to offer up the code itself, not so much the class and method headers, but I can if you need them.

int h = 0;
int m = 0;
int s = 0;

//Figuring out how many days have passed overall since the date.

int years
years = 2009 - 1970;
int days;
days = (years * 365) + 9 //9 extra days for leap years.
int days2009;
days2009 = 31 + 28 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 + 26;
days += days2009;
h = days * 24;

I might be able to continue if that's what you need. If you already have the time in milliseconds, I'll give you that too right now.

int h;
int m;
int s;

h = (time in ms) / 3,600,00;
m = ((time in ms) % 3,600,000) / 60;
s = (((time in ms) % 3,600,000) % 60) / 60

That should work correctly. I'm an AP Computer Science student, so hopefully that works.

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darkheart740

Thanks alot!!! I put it into java but it was like syntax error. could please continue? I just wish my teacher would help us and explain things but he doesn't >.>

Nhb93

Well I hope you know that the regular English inside of the () was just for sake of adding onto. I'm not sure how you are pulling anything into the program per say. That would be the source of the syntax error. I'd just go into class and say something along the lines of, "I got this far, but I don't know how to finish it." He should be impressed with the code you wrote so far. Sorry I can't be of any more help at the current time.

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