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exptime()

exptime()

Section titled “exptime()”

exptime(<seconds>)
writetime(<seconds>)
singletime(<seconds>)
digittime(<seconds>)

These write a number of seconds as a length of time.

  • exptime() gives each unit that is not zero by its letter: y years, M months, w weeks, d days, h hours, m minutes, s seconds. The seconds are always given.
  • writetime() gives the same units by name: 3 hours 25 minutes 45 seconds.
  • singletime() gives only the largest unit, rounded down.
  • digittime() gives hours and minutes as HH:MM, after the number of days when there are any.

A year is 31,556,926 seconds and a month 2,629,743, their average lengths. <seconds> is read up to the first character that is not a digit, and a negative number counts as 0.

These functions come from TinyMUX.

> think exptime(12345) / [writetime(123456)]
3h 25m 45s / 1 day 10 hours 17 minutes 36 seconds
> think [singletime(12345)] / [digittime(123456)] / [exptime(3600)]
3h / 1d 10:17 / 1h 0s

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