On Monday 2007-11-19 21:59, Bryen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 03:40 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Monday 2007-11-19 at 13:06 -0600, Bryen wrote:

> > > I'm trying to convert a value to an output to the user of
> > > minutes:seconds.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > > if $A=100 (for seconds)
> > > Then echo "This is 1:40 minutes"
> > >
> > > How would I do this?

> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> date --date="2007-1-1 100 minutes"
> > Mon Jan  1 01:40:00 CET 2007
> >
> > Maybe it can be refined, but you can see it does the conversion of 100
> > minutes.

> That's an interesting variation of the date command.  And I'm certainly
> going to keep that in mind should the need for that type of variation
> arise.   But in my script case, I was looking to convert a value into
> minutes/seconds not relative to clock time.

My itchy trigger finger deleted several emails in the thread.   Did anyone 
refine the date cccommand???

$ date --date="2007-1-1 100 seconds" +"This is %M:%S minutes"
This is 01:40 minutes

Thanks,
Ken
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