Comments on: Time format from seconds in AS3

By: AS3 Flash Counter Using the Timer Class and Formatting Time in Minutes | Ali Qureshi's Blog

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:46:57 +0000

[...] count the seconds, I used AS3 Timer class and for formatting I found this formatTime function of Jeff Depascale and put together following Flash counter using the Timer [...]

By: Jeff dePascale

Jeff dePascale — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:08:52 +0000

@jermbo:

We are working with seconds, so 3600 is equivalent to 1 hour in total seconds (60 seconds per minute * 60 minutes).

% is the modulo operator, better described here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation

basically you get the remainder of a calculation. So 5%2 would be 1, since 5 divided by 2 is 2 with a remainder of 1. Hope that helps

By: jermbo

jermbo — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:54:01 +0000

this is exactly what i needed. Thank you!!

for my own understanding can you explain why you are dividing and multiplying by 3600. And what does the % do in terms of math functions.

Thank your for your time!

By: Shaun Thomson

Shaun Thomson — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:11:25 +0000

This outputs “20″ instead of “0:03:20″ for me.

Is there something else I need to do to get it working?

Thanks

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:28:25 +0000

You’re a legend!. Cleanest and most optimized time format converter class I found around Google’s first page of results… that says a lot.

When it comes to math I tend to get a little bit lazy haha …

Cheers again!

By: JP

JP — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:25:24 +0000

Cheers

By: Jesus

Jesus — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:37:54 +0000

Bad ass thanks

By: Eerk

Eerk — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:45:05 +0000

Saved me a lot of time! Thanks!