From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-11-18T13:25:25+09:00
Subject: Re: How to time something?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Brian Geds <uforacer@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Heres what I have right now but it does reset the sec. to zero  it keeps
> going 61..62
>
> def seconds_minutes_string(seconds_elapsed)
>  seconds = seconds_elapsed % 59
>  minutes = seconds / 60
>  return minutes.to_s + ':' + seconds.to_s
> end

I'm not sure what you mean that "it doesn't reset the sec to zero

def seconds_minutes_string(seconds_elapsed)
 seconds = seconds_elapsed % 59
 minutes = seconds / 60
 return minutes.to_s + ':' + seconds.to_s
end

(55..65).map {|secs| seconds_minutes_string(secs)} # => ["0:55",
"0:56", "0:57", "0:58", "0:0", "0:1", "0:2", "0:3", "0:4", "0:5",
"0:6"]


This should produce the right strings, I assume you wanted 1:01
instead of 1:1 for 1 minute and 1 second

def seconds_minutes_string(seconds_elapsed)
  "%d:%02d" % [seconds_elapsed / 60, seconds_elapsed % 60]
end

(55..65).map {|secs| seconds_minutes_string(secs)} # => ["0:55",
"0:56", "0:57", "0:58", "0:59", "1:00", "1:01", "1:02", "1:03",
"1:04", "1:05"]





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