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[vishal <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Yes, I think its best to convert to seconds first
and then compute what you need.

I don't understand why openerp does not use
the unix timestamp instead.

Thank you,
Vishal Khialni

On Wednesday 31 October 2012 09:45 AM, jordg wrote:
> Why is hours a float value?
> Would it be easier to have it in seconds?
> It is realy easy to manipulate values as seconds.
>
> I tried the suggestion above which works for the client however the web
> needs to work also.
>
> But I cannot see how to get hh:mm:ss out of a float value. Maybe someone
> can enlighten me.
>
> How to add seconds to this????
> client/6.1/bin/tools/datetime_util.py
> def float_time_convert(float_val):
>          hours = math.floor(abs(float_val))
>          mins = round(abs(float_val)%1+0.01,2)
>          if mins >= 1.0:
>              hours = hours + 1
>              mins = 0.0
>          else:
>              mins = mins * 60
>          float_time = '%02d:%02d' % (hours,mins)
>          return float_time
>
> Is it better to convert it all to seconds???